Contemporary Arab Women Revolutionaries
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- ISBN 9781041123026
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Contemporary Arab Women Revolutionaries: Radical Traditions offers a groundbreaking interdisciplinary examination of Arab women’s radical modes of resistance from the 1970s to the present. Spanning literary, visual, political, social, digital, and translational practices, the volume reveals how women across the Arab world and its diasporas have established and transformed cultural, artistic, and spiritual traditions into powerful tools for confronting patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist structures.
Bringing together leading scholars in literature, film, visual culture, oral history, digital activism, and translation, the collection traces feminist interventions across key themes, including liberation and human rights, the disruption of social and gender norms, counter-memory as resistance, feminist resistance in conflict zones, and digital and translational activism. From Syrian Sufi-inflected poetics and Lebanese women combatants to Palestinian filmmakers, Sahrawi activists, and emerging dissident voices across Saudi Arabia, the Maghreb, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq, the chapters illuminate the creative, strategic, and often paradoxical ways women contest and reconfigure power.
Rich in case studies, multimodal analysis, and decolonial feminist theory, this landmark volume offers an indispensable framework for understanding the depth, complexity, and transnational reach of contemporary Arab feminist praxis.
Raad Khair Allah is an IASH Postdoctoral Fellow in digital humanities, researching reimaginations of nationhood in Arab cultural and digital feminism, and a Tutor at the School of Social and Political Science (University of Edinburgh). She holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies from the University of Warwick (2025). Khair Allah has been recognized with awards and fellowships from leading universities in the U.S. and U.K., including Harvard, Duke, Durham, and Edinburgh. Her digital project, Marginalization of Arab Women and Revolutionising Patriarchy, was awarded the DAHL Hero Medal 2024 (University of Warwick) and was also shortlisted for the USA’s Paula Svonkin Creative Art Award in 2022. Her work is published in Brill’s Journal of World Literature, Forum for Modern Language Studies (Oxford University Press), LIAS Working Paper Series, Exchanges, and Bridges.
