Opinion

Since the beginning of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, Medfeminiswiya has decided to convey the stories of women, activists, and correspondents from the heart of Gaza. To make their voices heard, to deceive the looming depression, but above all, to give personal narratives the importance they deserve. Rola Abou Hashem, a journalist and correspondent for Radio "Nisaa," tells us about her daily life under the bombs.

This time, I did not join a pro-Palestine march in Algeria only to cover it. This time, I went wearing two hats: my journalist hat and my feminist activist hat, and between the two I fluctuated from anger to anxiety to sadness, pain, hope…

Algerian writer Kamel Daoud* considers that the priority today is to understand Israel and criticize the resistance in Palestine and people’s anger over the massacres being committed. In this light, he sent, via French newspaper Le Point, a letter** to an unknown Israeli whom he grew up to hate and later learned to understand. Below is a letter to a known Palestinian woman, written by Algerian Wiame Awres.

Since the beginning of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, Medfeminiswiya has decided to convey the stories of women, activists, and correspondents from the heart of Gaza. To make their voices heard, to deceive the looming depression, but above all, to give personal narratives the importance they deserve. Rola Abou Hashem, a journalist and correspondent for Radio "Nisaa FM" tells us about her daily life under the bombs.

They have left us nothing else. Rage, disbelief, fury, indignation, despair, desolation, heartache, grief. Nothing else exists in our minds but a searing solidarity with our brothers and sisters being so brutally oppressed in Palestine.

If the October 2023 war accomplished one thing, it’s that it exposed the falsity of the entire world, its staggering ability to perpetuate baseless claims. Claims that justice is the basis of life, that humanity brings us together, that there are international values that must be respected. When it comes to Palestine, though, the fact is that all values are completely forgotten, eroded.

This news has been favorably received by parts of the populations of several Muslim countries, including Algeria, which consider the mixing of genders to be a danger to society.

Websites, forums, and online communities that incite gender-based violence by disseminating misogynistic and sexist content have been on the rise.

It is true that a person has died and, according to custom, we should not speak ill of the dead. But I will take an unpopular stance to remind us of the misogynistic and sexist cultural devastation of the "Berlusconi era" which we are still immersed in until today.

In Algeria, hijab ceremonies are occurring more and more frequently in universities. These campaigns promise hell to “wanton women who excite men.”