Sex

This story happened more than 70 or 80 years ago, in the Galilee Heights, during the British occupation “Mandate” to Palestine, a long time before we had the “honor” to host our “cousins’ the jews. There, in one of the Galilee villages, there was a Palestinian peasant who had a stubborn donkey. Both, the peasant [...]

In this podcast, I speak with Nadia from Tunisia about relationships and the perception of sex in the Arab world. What is accepted, what isn’t, and what’s hypocritical about our current societies. This is an important discussion but still surprisingly a taboo in the MENA region. Amongst the things we discuss are: virginity, independence (specifically [...]

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there is a big problem and i don’t thing oneday any writer wrote anything like this article they might consider it as forbidden talk or something its impolitely to speak about it but what im talking about is problem and this problem harming many women around the Arab word …the problem that the Arabs men [...]

This post is an excerpt of an intersting article.
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Sexual Politics in Modern Iran, by Janet Afary, takes advantage of modern historiography methods and offers an interesting explanation of gender and sexuality transformation in political, cultural and social contexts of 19th and 20th century Iran.
Very foundation of the book is about sexual revolution in Iran which [...]

Behind The Walls
Sara
With great fear, she insists to keep her identity hidden.
I decide to call her Sara, and quote her saying the shocking statement: “I’ve been beaten up, forced to have unprotected sex, thrown out in the middle of the night without getting paid”.
Sara is just one of the many cases where [...]

A Saudi University professor is facing flogging and imprisonment for breaking the law. He was caught having a cup of coffee with a lady who was not related to him in a coffee shop. He is actually facing an eight month prison sentence and 150 lashes!
I was shocked when I read the news of his [...]

It is interesting to see how Saudi society perceives half of a country’s population. Populations consisting of man and woman yet when you look around especially in public places such as government buildings you only see men in white robes!
If you look closely you will find women in hospitals and shops but they are [...]

A few months ago, I wrote this post, which was misunderstood by narrow-minded racists and Islamophobes, the latter of which seem to be infesting every site in existence. It was republished in dozens of blogs that are authored by the armies of Robert Spencer, the kind of person who twists and plays with words and [...]

So Esra’a told a story and asked “since when is it “offensive” to talk about sex and homosexuality?”
I get the same type of reactions and comments from Sudanese and Muslim conservatives about how I shouldn’t mention topics related to it on my blog.
Well, here’s the thing. It’s not like we’re talking about it 24/7 or [...]

This is a controversial website, I don’t think anyone can argue that we’re all wise and level-headed moderates with no biases or personal influences. We never claimed that we’re preachers who know right from wrong in this world, we simply engage in discourse in order to learn more about ourselves and those around us. And [...]