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In Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, Water Scarcity Impacts Women’s Livelihoods
A Daughter’s Memory and Hanna “Juan” Yaser’s legacy of Palestinian poetry in exile
Is Arab culture having a moment or is it being habibi-fied?
Sidewalk Diplomacy and the Politics of Passing Through
Virtual Exhibition: Patience and Process with Najla Said
Everywhere and Nowhere All At Once
I Love My Father, But I Would Never Marry A Man Like Him
On The World Men Made and Questions We Don’t Ask
Beirut Never Leaves You: Tanya Traboulsi on “Beirut, Recurring Dream”
Green Guilt: How I Realized My Immigrant Parents Were Sustainable Before Sustainability Was Cool
Nour Fakharany asks: “Why don’t we have a contemporary Egyptian design language?”
What War Does to Time
WhatsApp Clinics: Where Mothers Go When the Doctor Is Offline
Motherhood is a state of being
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Rewriting Intimacy: What we owe our friendships > romantic relationships
The Generational Wound of Navigating a World My Mother Could Only Dream Of
Endometriosis and PCOS: Between systemic neglect and societal taboos
A Journey to the World’s Smallest Butterfly (before it goes extinct)
Why Do We Continue to Ignore Regressive Policies for Afghan Women?
Our Education System is not Equipped to Extinguish a World on Fire
Becoming a Woman without the Woman that Raised Me
Poem: The Sugar Fairy
“Remember Me, Will You?” An Ode to Forgotten Maternal Lineages
Freedom by Design: Womena’s Decade of Impact
Carving a Legacy in the Mountains of St. Catherine: Hajja Amiriya
Lebanese Forager: Rianna Tassabehji
Do Women in The Region Need Feminism?
The Priestess: Reconnecting with the Remedies of My Great-Grandmother
How to talk to a child about genocide (spoiler: it’s hard)
Can Photography Archives Shape Our Heritage and Future Narratives?
Doomscrolling a Genocide
The Palestinian Diaspora: Navigating Survivor’s Guilt
Reclaiming Our Power: Fighting the Colonial Complex
I Heard the Sound of My Land and it’s Autotuned
How psychoanalysis and capitalist patriarchy tricked women into smoking
You, Me and Baby Makes Three
Rom-coms Shaped my Romantic Ideals, Social Media Tore Them Down
Neither Victim nor Survivor: How can we move #MeToo forward?
…And what do we know of happiness?
My matriarchal lineage and I
Can friendships grow with us as we get older?
Does mental health care consider diverse cultural experiences?
Explaining Death to a Toddler
El Ghorba: Home Remembered and Imagined
Parenting as a feminist is a lonely thing
Making space for the me I am now
Is TikTok giving diaspora communities a connection to home?
My Personal Collection of Culture, and Questions
Stepping Up And Into Your Personal Power
Parenting a Neurodivergent Child
Living with ADHD after decades of medical gaslighting
When I Was Dying
Creating An Artistic Language That Flows Between Fantasy and Reality
These Young Regional Pop Artists Are Repping The Arab Identity
Where Do We Hide Our Shame?
Learning to Like My Mother
30+ and “still” single: Redefining marital norms
What does building for climate resilience mean for our region?
Palestinian ‘tatreez’ and the politics of youth
Writing Competition Winners!
The Reality of Motherhood
Shifting the outlook on self-care in the region
“My mother wouldn’t call herself a feminist, but she upheld all its values”
The generational ghosts of abandonment
Decolonizing beauty by reclaiming natural curls, curves and complexions
Spearheading a revolution of inclusion
Living with Microtia didn’t define me, but it’s what made me
A sustainable approach to the period conversation
The radical existence of my neurodivergent sibling
Advancing the rights of migrant workers in MENA
Spearheading a haven for creatives in Lebanon
Bringing the mental health conversation to streetwear
On Palestine: Speak up, get educated, hold space
Parkour, pregnancy and personalizing fitness
Harnessing movement and mindset as medicine through dance
Zeez Collective: Comics of remembrance and resistance
Championing sport in mental health advocacy
Breaking free from abstract age brackets
Battling anxiety: Where do you go when an enemy is your home?
Standing up against society’s model
Forging a new era for women in Saudi law
Localizing climate solutions while baking Wu-Tang cookies
Diplomacy, adventure, and conveying true perspective
Making ethical essentials the new edgy
A journey back to basketball and self-actualization
Bringing the power of holistic wellbeing to the region
Empowering the region’s natural hair journey
Making interactive learning accessible and relevant
Personalizing access to healthier lifestyles in the region
Podcasts connecting Arab youth to their culture and stories
Understanding the erotic through art
Spotlighting women filmmakers through Habibi Collective
The power of public art and empowering artists
Visualizing the inner warrior queen
Innovating tech for cleaner water
Breaking the silence of womanhood
Strictly sneakers and No Boys Allowed
5 Startups Join Cycle 3 of Revamped Womentum Accelerator
Scrapbooking and the traveling Sarj
Adapting while remaining true to yourself and your art
The urban culture, the Dukkan, the courage
The vulnerability of carving out new creative spaces
The fashion of giving a f*ck
Connecting communities through the art of film
Ethereal imagery and living in metaphors
Radical honesty and the art of social impact
Sitti empowers refugee women and promotes ethical consumption
Womentum 2020 Heads to Egypt and UAE
Alya Mooro is finding her truth on the way to “The Greater Freedom”
Malaika Munshi finds fluidity in artistic expression
A revolution of freedom, love and self-discovery
From entrepreneur to triathlete to transatlantic adventures
Balancing basketball, art and activism
Womentum 2019 Graduates Cohort of 7 Female-Led Tech Startups
Chefaa is giving patients safe, reliable access to vital medicine
Pas-sport is taking MENA’s student athletes global
A unique algorithm for complex planning problems
A social network for MENA’s second-hand fashion lovers
Driving diversity in the world of toys
Luxury Promise: A pre-loved luxury marketplace for MENA and beyond
Empowering farmers with fair pay and market access
Womentum 2018: The impact of taking startups to the next level
Womena Opens Applications For Womentum 2019
Womentum Graduates First Cohort of Female-led Tech Startups
Womena Selects Finalists For Womentum’s First Cohort
Womena Launches Womentum Accelerator to Support Female-Led Startups
7 Things MENA Investors Are Looking For In Your Pitch, As Told By WOMENA’s Angels
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