Al-Raida, The Pioneering Arab Journal on Gender Issues, is the bi-annual interdisciplinary journal of the Institue for Women’s Studies in the Arab World. Al-Raida amplifies the voices of and sheds light on the lived experiences of women in the Arab region by promoting scholarship on and by Arab women, in addition to providing a space for researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and students to address gender equality and women’s issues in the Arab region.
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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