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Samah Salaime is a feminist Palestinian activist and writer.
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When a Palestinian, Muslim woman went on Israeli Big Brother
Shams, a hijab-wearing, Palestinian woman went on the Israeli reality TV show to teach Jewish Israelis about her humanity. She was naive to think she’d succeed, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t support her. It’s hard with these Palestinians everywhere, even on Big Brother. I admit and confess, I know next to nothing about the…
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Samah Salaime
May 30, 2018
Bidding farewell to the voice of Palestine
Rim Banna, one of Palestine’s most recognizable and important singers, died on Saturday after a lengthy battle with cancer. She leaves behind a dream of freedom from the occupation, patriarchy, and oppression. Rim Banna, the singer from Nazareth who enraptured millions died on Sunday after a battle with cancer. She was 51 years old. Arabic social…
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Samah Salaime
March 26, 2018
The quiet feminist revolution in Arab society in Israel
Despite the hardships, Arab women are making gains in the Israeli legal establishment, local politics, academia, and even in the Islamic Movement. I watched as Hollywood stars collectively came out of the feminist closet during the Academy Awards this week. They spoke with pride about the recent #MeToo campaign, and demanded more respect and more…
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Samah Salaime
March 8, 2018
Setting the struggle against gender-based violence back 30 years
A proposed bill to increase the sentences for Arab men who kill women ‘on the basis of family honor’ is not a step forward for feminism, but a step back. The Justice Ministry recently presented a bill to the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice committee that would define murder on the basis of “family honor”…
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Samah Salaime
March 2, 2018
Arab woman MK attacked by Hebrew media for criticizing army policy
MK Aida Touma-Suleiman, a female legislator from the Arab-Jewish socialist party, criticized the Israeli army’s policy toward Syria, warning that it could escalate to a war that would endanger civilians. In response, one veteran male television news analyst ordered her to ‘sit down and be quiet.’ The Israeli air force has carried out more than 100 bombing incursions deep inside Syrian territory over the…
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Samah Salaime
February 13, 2018
‘There’s no such thing as a feminist name-change’
When I reverted my surname back to my maiden name, apparently the Interior Ministry decided I was getting divorced. How do you prove that you’re not getting divorced? My own personal brush with Kafka. I went to the Interior Ministry office in Beit Shemesh to get a passport issued for my adolescent son last week.…
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Samah Salaime
January 2, 2018
When the IDF protects Palestinians for the sake of propaganda
The army’s new hasbara video is meant to convince the English-speaking world that it protects Palestinians from settlers during the olive harvest, as if the latter were some kind of untamable beasts. With the beginning of the olive harvest, the IDF has decided to wish all Palestinians a bountiful and safe season! A new video…
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Samah Salaime
October 26, 2017
Wonder Women: The Arab feminist revolution on Facebook
Thousands of Arab women on Facebook are sharing, with heart-wrenching honesty, stories of female heroism that don’t always make headlines. Is a new Arab feminism emerging? And what about the new Arab man? A week ago one of my Facebook friends added me to a group for Arab women. Oh no, I thought. Not another…
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Samah Salaime
October 25, 2017
The young Arab women on Israel’s hasbara dream team
A young Arab woman on a propaganda delegation to the United States sparks a storm in the Arab world with an interview in which she praises Israel’s democracy, which she says liberates Arab women from their primitive society, and which 90 percent of Arabs pray to live under. Dema Taya is a young Arab Muslim…
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Samah Salaime
October 23, 2017
How Bedouin women were exploited to ‘Judaize’ the Negev at NY Fashion Week
An organization that settles Jews in the Negev, and with a central role in the story of displacement at Umm al-Hiran, enlists a famous Israeli designer to team up with Bedouin women for a NY Fashion Week fundraiser. The problem — nobody told the Bedouin women what they were up to. Israeli designer Aviad Arik Herman,…
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Samah Salaime
September 6, 2017
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