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Speaking Out: Women's Voices from Syria
Years active: 2015-2018
Women are among the hardest-hit by the war in Syria, yet many play vital roles in the struggle for human rights, gender equality, reconciliation and social justice.
IWPR’s Speaking Out project provides a space for female writers to share their experiences of daily life both in Syria or as refugees abroad. It is a platform where they can publish their views at a time when they struggle to be heard amid ongoing atrocities, mass displacement, collapsing public services, and personal tragedies.
The blog posts are written and published in Arabic and also translated into English for publication here and on IWPR’s Syria Stories website.
My Wheelchair and I
Overcoming disability to help others.
I Can Still Smell the Blood
A young woman witnesses Islamic State brutality for the first time.
Returning to be Welcomed by Missiles
A family's homecoming turns sour.
I Don't Even Have the Right to Grieve
Where is the space for a woman to mourn the loss of her friend?
Syria's Rebellious Women Films
Three stories give a rare insight into a side of Syria often absent from the news.
Faten's Story
Amid the turmoil of civil war, a young woman finds herself repeating her mother's tragedy.
A Birth That Felt Like Death
Displaced and impoverished by war, a mother-to-be desperately seeks help.
Saying Goodbye to Marwa
Sisters divided by war, with no reunion in sight.
Saidnaya Prison: the "Red Dragon"
Detainees say that death is preferable to languishing in the notorious jail.