Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives -- East and West

"In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a feminist delegation composed of author Nawal Saadawi and other renowned activists from the Middle East and North Africa gather at the UN, on college campuses, and in church basements to speak out about deterioration of women's rights in the Arab states in an effort to heighten awareness of the Arab feminist struggle for equality--and the effects of U.S. foreign policy on their efforts."
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[@dewilew2137]

Depressing as hell that this video has the fewest number of views, likes, and comments out of all the videos on this channel. Depressing, but not at all surprising.

[@ashhhh7335]

This is great ! Please post more Arab feminist content.

[@feminist-vhs-archive]

I’ve got a few more I’ll post. More recent stuff too

[@grace-xb8ve]

The Egyptian woman talking about how CNN reporting on FGM was really bad timing and actually hurt the movement reminded me so, so much of a gay man I spoke to in Jordan last year. He talked about how prior to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, things had actually been improving for gays and lesbians in Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries, incrementally, but still materially getting better. Unfortunately, the Western activists acting the fool in Qatar over its laws drew more attention to homosexuals among people in the Middle East and linked them with the West. Activists who previously had been seen as homegrown and were carving out spaces for gay people in the Middle East (Amman, Jordan used to have an internationally known gay bar, for example) were suddenly a foreign imposition, and any progress they had made evaporated overnight. Groups that had previously had a "don't ask, don't tell" policy suddenly faced major crackdowns. The religious leaders were railing against homosexuals on TV constantly for the first time in years. The Westerners (Americans, I believe) in Qatar had not consulted with a single Middle Eastern LGB/T organisation prior to their behaviour; they just assumed they knew what was best. As Western activists, we need to be so incredibly careful with how we go about supporting movements we agree with abroad. This is now the second instance I've heard of culturally imperialist activism attempts making things materially worse for the people they claimed to want to help.

[@sinekonata]

13:03 She said it all : imperialism is the primary contradiction to all of the people, including feminists. Wherever imperialism funds fascism, women pay the highest toll.
There's a genocide in Yemen happening right now at the hands of US vassal Saudi Arabia. Hands holding US weapons. If the Yemeni cannot keep marching forward and are defeated despite their numerous heroic victories, women will suffer the most when another fascist is put in power and Yemen becomes another vassal of the US. So please spread the word about Yemen's plight and show solidarity with Yemeni women please U_U.

[@sinekonata]

25:30 She's 100% right, this is really quite interesting.
Now that she's made me see, I'd go further actually. When your government brings a regime to power, funds it, suppresses its opponents, goes to war against its enemies, decides of the military and economic situation of said country, that county is an extension of yours. "Supporting" a regime is therefore a euphemistic term. Saudi Arabia IS the US. So yes the US does stone women. The US could 100% stop stoning women tomorrow if it wanted, but that's definitely not a priority for it. And as long as the blame is on Saudi Arabia and not the US, it has no reason to.

[@noellane6770]

Amazing video thank you so much for uploading

[@spa5009]

hi, do you have any radfem documentary
you can recommend me ?

[@feminist-vhs-archive]

Yes. Angry wimmin is a good start. It’s up elsewhere on TH-cam. Also Men’s Madness is one of my favs. It’s posted on this channel. I’ll set up a playlist because there’s hundreds of good docs out there

[@spa5009]

@@feminist-vhs-archive thank you so much

[@sinekonata]

"Each wave of political tension, hopes for women's equality recede."
Not true at all. Only those tensions that are resolved by a total or partial victory of the imperialists. Total victories of the people ease the hopes of women's equality considerably, everywhere they have happened and instantly so, regardless of how much the men among those revolutionaries resist it. This is true for both gender and race, they are greatly weakened.