• How Arab men get away with domestic violence

 “I think it’s best if you don’t tell anyone. It’s best for you and your family.”

This is a sentence that we hear every time we are exposed as women to harassment, insults, verbal abuse, physical or sexual assault. We are brought up on these regressive ideas and we become obsessed with them – not out of conviction in them but for fear of society’s censure and prejudice.

• Why aren’t Arab men spinsters as well?

Women suffer from injustice and oppression by their parents, society and religion, and this even extends into the Arabic language which contributes to oppressing women and rendering them inferior to men.