Arab Women in Israel: From Oppression to Empowerment

Amal Abu Sayyaf, a doctoral candidate from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, levels some harsh charges against the tolerance shown by Israeli society toward the phenomenon of oppressed Arab women, writes Shlomi Eldar.
Palestinian women take part in a protest against the death of a Palestinian detainee in an Israeli jail, in Gaza City February 24, 2013. Palestinian officials on Saturday demanded an international investigation into the death of a Palestinian detainee who died in an Israeli jail hours earlier. A spokeswoman for Israel's Prison Authority said that the detainee, 30-year-old Arafat Jaradat, had apparently died of cardiac arrest. An emergency service team had tried to resuscitate him but failed, she said. REUTE
Palestinian women take part in a protest, Feb. 24, 2013. - REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
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As part of the events marking International Women’s Day on Thursday [March 8], Amal Abu Sayyaf, a doctoral student at the department of social work at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, will step up to the podium at the United Nations in New York and discuss “The Empowerment of the Arab Woman in Israel” to delegates, both male and female, from around the world.

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