Join MERIP for an online launch event highlighting our latest issue, New Gender Frontlines.

The event will feature a conversation with issue editor Sabiha Allouche, and contributors Rahaf Aldoughli, Paniz Musawi Natanzi, and Hala Shoman moderated by MERIP Executive Director, James Ryan.

If you haven’t already read our latest issue, links to the participant’s contributions are below:
Rahaf Aldoughli “Syria’s New Men”
Paniz Musawi Natanzi, “Courts of Exclusion — Working Class Masculinity and Anti-Afghan Racism in Iran”
Hala Shoman, “Israel’s War on Reproduction in Gaza”

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