[Marxism] The lioness eats the parrot: a feminist response to an “alternative” reading | اللبوات الغاضبات

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A solid radical feminist discourse is coming from Egypt. This is the latest
from a recently created blog, Angry Labwas. Arabic for lioness (to be
specific, the Egyptian colloquial version of the standard Arabic word but
only with a slight difference), labwa is the closest we have here in sense
to bitches.
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Re: [Marxism] The lioness eats the parrot: a feminist response to an “alternative” reading | اللبوات الغاضبات

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Forgot to add it's written collectively and anonymously.
On Mar 26, 2015 8:56 PM, "MF Kalfat"  wrote:

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> https://labwat.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/the-lioness-eats-the-parrot-a-feminist-response-to-an-alternative-reading-%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%81-%d8%aa%d8%a3%d9%83%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%ba%d8%a8%d8%ba/
>
> A solid radical feminist discourse is coming from Egypt. This is the
> latest from a recently created blog, Angry Labwas. Arabic for lioness (to
> be specific, the Egyptian colloquial version of the standard Arabic word
> but only with a slight difference), labwa is the closest we have here in
> sense to bitches.
>
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[Marxism] Samah Selim: Translator’s Introduction to Arwa Salih’s The Stillborn | Mona Baker

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http://www.monabaker.org/?p=6152

"​Arwa Salih was an Egyptian communist who came of political age in the
early 1970s; in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, the end of
the Nasser era, and the beginning of Anwar Al-Sadat’s transitional regime.
She belonged to the transformative political moment instigated by the
radical student movement of that decade and the political generation known
as ‘the generation of the seventies’. She was a member of the central
committee of the Marxist-Leninist Egyptian Communist Workers Party, the
major Marxist group of the decade, and quickly acquired a reputation
amongst her mentors and comrades as a gifted and fiery young cadre. Though
she was known amongst her peers as a talented writer, her extant published
work is scant for reasons that partly have to do with the nature of the
underground political work of the times (she wrote mainly for the ECWP’s
paper) and the fact that she was a woman in a world of men. Apart from the
present short book, she published an Arabic translation of Tony Cliff’s 1984
 *Class Struggle and Women’s Liberation*. The only other published material
available to readers is a short and hastily edited selection of her papers
made in 1998, one year after her death. The volume includes an excerpt from
her memoirs, a long poem, and a study of the novelist Son’allah Ibrahim’s
fiction."
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Re: [Marxism] Shunned During Her Period, Nepali Woman Dies of Snakebite

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> ​ Women in the Menstruation Huts: Variations in Preserving Purification
> Customs among Ethiopian Immigrants
> ​ http://www.jstor.org/stable/20487899?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents ​
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> Message: 12
> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:33:54 -0400
> From: Louis Proyect 
> To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
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> Subject: [Marxism] Shunned During Her Period, Nepali Woman Dies of
> Snakebite
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> (So whatever happened to the Maoist revolution that was supposed to
> transform Nepal?)
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> NY Times, July 10 2017
> Shunned During Her Period, Nepali Woman Dies of Snakebite
> By RAJNEESH BHANDARI and NIDA NAJAR
>
> KATHMANDU, Nepal ? Every month when her period came, Tulasi Shahi was
> sent to stay in her uncle?s hut, the one where he keeps his cows tied
> up, in a village in the Dailekh district in western Nepal. This month
> was no different. She slept there on wooden boards laid on the ground,
> in keeping with a tradition known as chhaupadi that sequesters
> menstruating women from their families.
>
> But while she was in the hut on Thursday night, Ms. Shahi, 18, was
> bitten by a poisonous snake. Her mother took her to a shaman, but he
> could not cure her. Then she was taken to a health clinic, but workers
> did not have the antivenom medicine she needed, her family said.
>
> Ms. Shahi died early Friday morning.
>
> ?If she was given proper treatment, she would have survived,? said
> Kamala Shahi, a cousin of Ms. Shahi?s who works at a government health
> post. ?She died because of superstition.?
>
> The Supreme Court of Nepal ordered an end to chhaupadi, which is linked
> to Hinduism, in 2005. But it is still practiced in many of Nepal?s
> isolated villages, particularly in the west. A bill is pending in
> Parliament to formally criminalize the practice. Many people in rural
> villages believe that menstruating women are impure and can bring bad
> luck on a household. Under the chhaupadi tradition, the women are kept
> from taking part in normal family activities and social gatherings or
> from entering houses, kitchens and temples.
>
> A Nepali government survey in 2010, cited in a State Department human
> rights report, found that 19 percent of women in the country aged 15 to
> 49 practiced chhaupadi, and the proportion rose to 50 percent in the
> midwestern and far western regions.
>
> The practice has its dangers: Women must often brave winter cold or
> summer heat in rude huts where they are vulnerable to human and animal
> intruders.
>
> Anita Gyawali, an official responsible for women?s issues in Dailekh,
> said that another teenage girl died in the district about six weeks ago,
> also from a snakebite, while staying in a menstrual hut. And a
> 15-year-old girl in another part of the country died in a menstrual shed
> in December; local news reports said she was killed by smoke inhalation
> after lighting a fire in the hut to keep warm.
>
> ?Young girls feel guilty,? Ms. Gyawali said. ?They are forced to follow
> this tradition by their parents and religion.?
>
> Ms. Shahi?s family said she did not object to the practice. ?I think my
> sister accepted it and followed it because it has been continuing since
> ages,? said her brother Prem Shahi, 24. ?I think she accepted it because
> my grandmother followed it and my mother followed it.?
>
> Others pointed to lack of education as a factor.
>
> ?I heard about the incident of Tulasi Shahi,? said Rukmini Acharya, 17,
> who lives in the area and said she had observed a less extreme version
> of the practice. ?I am very sad about it. Girls who stay in a hut face a
> lot of difficulties. It?s all because the parents are illiterate.?
>
> Radha Paudel, a Kathmandu-based women?s rights activist who focuses on
> menstrual health, said Nepal needed to enact legislation specifically
> outlawing the practice, and to do a better job of spreading awareness of
> its dangers.
>
> ?There are so many organizations working on this issue,? Ms. Paudel
> said. ?Our president is a woman, the speaker is a woman, and our chief
> justice was a woman. But girls are dying in the shed, and they have to
> live like animals. It?s shameful.?
>
> Rajneesh Bhandari reported from Kathmandu, and Nida Najar from New Delhi.
>
>
>
> --
>
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[Marxism] I'm the Jewish Banker Behind the Soros Fortune | Spengler

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I'm the Jewish Banker Behind the Soros Fortune | Spengler

The Internet is crawling with loonie stories alleging that liberal funder
George Soros is a frontman for the Rothschild banking family, in the
service of a conspiracy for world government. In the 19th century, to be
sure, the Rothschild bank exercised enormous power at the peak of British
an...

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[Marxism] CFP: Towards an Arab Left Reader — Cambridge, April 12 – 14, 2018 | Arab Left Reader on WordPress.com

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CFP: Towards an Arab Left Reader — Cambridge, April 12 – 14, 2018 | Arab
Left Reader on WordPress.com

Why is there as yet no reader or anthology of Arab leftist thought in
English translation? This workshop will bring together an international
group of scholars and translators from a wide range of disciplines to
identify, discuss and translate a selection of documents that have played a
pivotal role in the formation of socialist, anti-colonial…

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[Marxism] #FreeAlaa: 25 days for Alaa

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#*FreeAlaa* 

Letter from Alaa Abd El-Fattah: "Unlike me, you have not been defeated yet"
- Access Now

Alaa Abd El-Fattah says we shouldn't give up fighting for an internet of
diversity and complexity.

https://www.accessnow.org/letter-alaa-abd-el-fattah-unlike-not-defeated-yet/
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[Marxism] My J'accuse open letter re the LGBTQ crackdown in Egypt (Arabic)

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https://www.madamasr.com/ar/2017/10/06/opinion/u/%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%85%d9%81%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%ad%d8%a9-%d8%a5%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%82-%d8%ac%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%a9%d8%8c-%d8%a3%d9%88-%d8%a5%d9%86%d9%8a-%d8%a3%d9%8a/

Since the website is ironically blocked, among many many others, where I
live (and where Mada is based), the articles are also posted in their
entirety on Facebook, for those in Egypt who're not techie enough for VPN,
Tor and proxies):
https://www.facebook.com/mada.masr/photos/a.564476860276121.1073741826.557202771003530/1720261181364344/?type=3&permPage=1
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[Marxism] Egypt imposes media blackout on LGBT community - Egypt Independent

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Egypt imposes media blackout on LGBT community - Egypt Independent

The Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) has released an order to
ban all forms of support towards the LGBT community on media outlets
Egypt’s Supreme Council for Media Regulation issued an order to ban all
forms of promotion or sympathy towards the LGBT community on media outlets
in addition to their appearance on media … Continued

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[Marxism] Burhan backed by junior officers pushes to take control of transitional military council, holds talks with opposition | MadaMasr

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https://madamasr.com/en/2019/04/13/feature/politics/burhan-backed-by-junior-officers-pushes-to-take-control-of-transitional-military-council-holds-talks-with-opposition/
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[Marxism] Academics have shaped Sudan's political history, and may do it again

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http://theconversation.com/academics-have-shaped-sudans-political-history-and-may-do-it-again-115232
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[Marxism] The Fall of al-Bashir: Mapping Contestation Forces in Sudan – Arab Reform Initiative

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