Skip to main content
  • English
  • Deutsch
  • عربي
Qantara.de - Dialog mit der islamischen Welt
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Essays
  • Photo Essays
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Topics
  • Essays
  • Photo Essays

smartphone menu rubriken

  • Home
  • Politics
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Topics
  • Dialogues
  • Essays
  • Photo Essays
  • Letters to the Editors

Author: Ziad Ali

rss-iconSubscribe to feed
Rania needed to buy bicycles for her project and make them fit for the rides (photo: Samar Abou Elouf)

Gender rights and "Pink Bike"

Gaza ladies' bicycle club

After helping her daughter survive cancer, Rania Shaik has dedicated herself to bringing joy to the women of Gaza by letting them loose on two wheels. Ziad Ali reportsMore

Private initiatives in Gaza: For a brighter future ... despite the blockadeSun Box solar energy project: A light for GazaIn Gaza, parkour brings youngsters a taste of freedomThe Pikala Bikes initiative in Morocco: More mobility, more confidence, more freedom
  • All Topics
  • All Authors
  • All Countries
  • ‎‎‎Newest
  • Most Read
  1. Women's voices

    Iranian literature in times of uprising

  2. Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

    The Taliban cannot defeat women

  3. Eye-witness on Iran protests

    Exiled artist Forouhar: 'A country in turmoil'

  4. Forced marriage in Turkey

    Turkish state fails child bride in sect marriage

  5. Women's rights in Egypt

    We need to talk about abortion

  6. Climate change impacts Somalia

    What future without rain – or aid?

  1. Forced marriage in Turkey

    Turkish state fails child bride in sect marriage

  2. Sex life in Saudi Arabia

    Lifting the veil

  3. Economic crisis on the Nile

    Is Egypt the 'new Lebanon'?

  4. Female scholars in Islam

    Unsung guardians of the 'true' tradition

  5. Women's voices

    Iranian literature in times of uprising

  6. Eye-witness on Iran protests

    Exiled artist Forouhar: 'A country in turmoil'

In brief

  • Israel hits Gaza as conflict flares after West Bank clashes

  • IMF announces visit to crisis-hit Pakistan

  • Hijabi 'indie mothers' embraced by young Indonesian music fans

  • All eyes on turnout as Tunisia votes again after boycott

More
Social media
and networks
Subscribe to our
newsletter

Most Recent Photo Essay

Goodbye forever? A woman in a burka leaving a university in Kandahar province. She will not be allowed to return. In a government statement in mid-December 2022, the Islamist Taliban instructed all universities – private as well as public – in Afghanistan to ban women from attending. All female students were barred from universities with immediate effect

The Taliban's war on women

Since seizing power in mid-2021, the Taliban have continued to restrict the rights of Afghan women and girls. At the end of 2022, they banned women from attending higher education. By Nele Jensch

  • Home
  • Politics
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Topics
  • Dialogues
  • Essays
  • Photo Essays
  • Letters to the Editors
  • About us
  • Masthead
  • Privacy Policy