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What is our vision for the network?

The Young Arab Feminist Network will be a regional network for individual young women activists (18-early 30s) working in Arab societies. It will provide the necessary organizing tools, skills and knowledge for young women activists to organize and mobilize more effectively around women’s rights issues they identify as important.

We realized that as young women activists working on women’s rights issues in the region we are in need of four basic things:

-          Incubating space for ideas and activities

-          Knowledge

-          Space for linkages

-          Progressive (inclusive) safe space

And so, our network aims to achieve the following goals:

-         Build a community of activists where we break the isolation of young women activists and provide an avenue for collective work on various women’s issues

-         Provide information and knowledge on feminism and critical analysis of women’s rights work in Arab societies

-         Be a progressive platform for debate and discussion of all mainstream and taboo issues affecting women’s rights in Arab societies

-         Expand the discourse on women’s rights in Arab societies to be more inclusive, progressive and politically charged.

Why we are a young women only network?

Although we do believe that patriarchy affects everyone, we are a young women only network. This is because we believe that young women deal with specific issues and as a result have particular needs. We aim to provide the space for these issues to be untangled and have open conversations without worrying about navigating gender and age dynamics.