By Merle Daliah At least since the Age of Enlightenment, Western societies have gradually been shaped according to the notion of a ‘free will’, meaning a person’s freedom to be independent, autonomous and to possess individual responsibility. This is the case for the development of the modern constitutions and concepts of democracy. However, public intellectuals are warning about the threat…
By Merle Daliah At least since the Age of Enlightenment, Western societies have gradually been shaped according to the notion of a ‘free will’, meaning a person’s freedom to be independent, autonomous and to possess individual responsibility. This is the case for the development of the modern constitutions and concepts…
Read MoreBy Merle Daliah Despite more than half of the world’s population being female, women are still treated as a minority. To demonstrate the current circumstances; only 37 percent of the European Parliament Members are female, while in certain European countries women only comprise 20 percent of the national parliaments. Internationally,…
Read MoreBy Merle Ecker Once upon a time, when the divine prince Rama was sent into exile into the forest, he was followed by people who wanted to support him. Rama, however, told the men and women to return home. The people left, except for those who were neither men nor…
Read MoreBy Merle Ecker As soon as you represent someone else, you equally include yourself. – Tasnim Baghdadi Young female artists of color are reclaiming their narrative and giving a face to the issue of borders and their consequences. Tasnim Baghdadi and Moshtari Hilal are two women of the diaspora, living in…
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