Shohini Chaudhuri is a professor in the Literature, Film and Theatre Studies department at the University of Essex, and ...

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Israel’s push towards authoritarianism by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is not slowing down during the ...

Israel’s push towards authoritarianism by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is not slowing down during the country’s ever-expanding military operations. If anything, it is intensifying ...

The silencing of Afghanistan’s women is now complete. This week, Afghanistan’s Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice came into force. Women’s voices are now considered as awrah, or ...

Women gather in Albania in defiance of the Taliban's new "vice and virtue" laws which aim to stop them from being heard ...