Palestinian women demand quota increase - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Asmaa al-Ghoul

Asmaa al-Ghoul

Mar 13, 2015

Palestinian lawmakers attend a session of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah February 20, 2007. Hamas said on Tuesday it still hoped Washington would soften its position towards a Palestinian unity government following talks U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. REUTERS/Loay Abu Haykel (WEST BANK) - RTR1MLWX — Palestinian lawmakers attend a session of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Feb. 20, 2007. — REUTERS/Loay Abu Haykel

Palestinian Minister of Women's affairs Haifa al-Agha (L) sits next to her predecessor in Gaza Jamila al-Shanti as she attends her first meeting with the new Palestinian government on June 8, 2014 in Gaza city. A unity government sworn in on last week under a reconciliation deal between Hamas and the West Bank-based Palestinian leadership to end seven years of rival administrations in the two territories. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Hamas appoints first woman to political bureau

Rasha Abou Jalal

Rasha Abou Jalal

In Gaza City, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Staff of the Palestinian Central Elections Commission display electoral lists ahead of the upcoming general elections, at the commission's local offices in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on April 6, 2021.

Palestinian women still underrepresented on electoral lists

Aziza Nofal

A man casts his vote at a polling station during the second phase of the parliamentary election runoff in Toukh, El-Kalubia governorate, northeast of Cairo, Egypt, December 1, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RTX1WNIJ

Did Egyptian intelligence meddle in recent elections?

Ahmed Fouad

A woman casts her vote during the second round of parliamentary run-off elections at Shubra in El-Kalubia, on the outskirts of Cairo January 10, 2012. Islamists aimed to cement control over Egypt's lower house of parliament as a final phase of voting began on Tuesday, while a secular party's plan to boycott elections for the upper chamber threatened to weaken the liberal bloc. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2W3HV

Egyptian women campaign for larger role in parliament

Sarah El-Rashidi

Sarah El-Rashidi