July 26, 2015

Lebenese Women Enter the Business World from Home

Every morning Mira wakes up, changes her son’s diaper, prepares her daughter for school and makes coffee for her husband. It seems like the typical Lebanese […]
July 26, 2015

Women in the Workforce in the Arab World

A great debate has been raging over whether the so-called Arab Spring has been good or bad for the women of the region. Some argue that […]
July 15, 2015

The Diverse Roles and Aspirations of Middle Eastern Women

It is a common assumption in the U.S. that Muslim women are oppressed, and that their religion forces them to cover their bodies and even their […]
July 15, 2015

Algeria Bans Domestic Abuse

Algeria’s parliament passed a law Thursday 5th March criminalising domestic violence against women in a vote harshly criticised by conservatives as intruding on the intimacy of […]
July 13, 2015

Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa

As the societies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) undertake the difficult process of enacting social and political change, the unequal status of women […]
July 13, 2015

An Islamic Perspective on Women’s Dress

Muslim Women’s League No subject seems to receive more attention as an issue unique to Muslims than that of women’s dress. In some instances, the dress […]
March 29, 2015

Continuous targeting of human rights defenders in Egypt; witnesses become defendants

Cairo March 28th, 2015   Due to the continuous crackdown on human rights defenders, the undersigning human rights organizations and institutions and individualsexpress their astonishment and […]
March 22, 2015

New Women Foundation Issued A report on Political Participation of Women in Power and Decision-making Positions.

In the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), affiliated to the United Nations (UN), after 20 years have passed on the […]
March 18, 2015

“Voices of Freedom .. New Woman Foundation’s slogan for the ceremony of the Egyptian Woman’s day 16 March

  The New Woman Foundation Celebrated on 16 March the Egyptian Women’s Day with a large presence in a ceremony organized by the Foundation under the […]
February 15, 2015

UN Women: Community groups interact with Executive Director during her first visit to Egypt

“I am precious, I am loved, my body is mine only, my body protects me” sang a group of young girls and boys trained by the […]
December 17, 2014

New Woman Foundation Launches Fact Sheet about violence against women

For 16 days campaign to avoid violence against women. New Woman Foundation launches a fact sheet about the forms of violence against women including facts, background […]
November 1, 2014

Google celebrates Lotfia El-Nadi, Egypt’s first female aviator

Google Egypt is celebrating the birthday of Lotfia El-Nadi, the first Egyptian and African female aviator. An image of the pilot wearing an aviator helmet appears […]