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Daughter
of the Nile,
What Are
You After?
Meet Aisha Fellatiya, a
pioneer of modernity
in Sudan
The Female
Frontier
A legacy of pressure
handed down from
mothers to daughters
Being a
Brother
How suppressive
traditional guardianship
taught me to support
my sister
When It is
Political It
is Personal
Women and the veil a complex relationship
on canvas
DOSSIER:
The Female
Body - A
Contested Land
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SIHA Journal
Issue 02/2015
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EDITORIAL
REVIEW
05 T
hree Questions To: The artist Ibrahim Sayed 54 The way forward
Words from a Tunisian woman scholar of Islamic jurisprudence
PEOPLE
58 B
oko Haram and others
Women and girls rights hijacked in the name of Islam
06 R
emembering Aisha Fallatiya
A daughter of the Nile seeks modernity in Sudan
10 Egyptian Sheikh Ali Abdel Raziq
Opposing State absolutism in the name of religion
12 S
omalia’s songbird
A tribute to Saado Ali Warsame
14 Caught by Abuhadia
Educating girls to develop communities
18 W
ith pots and pens: Awadiya Abbas
A life’s work for women’s economic rights in Sudan
EQUALITY
20
20 A
ccount of a single mother
Double standards burden motherhood in Sudan
61 R
eligious freedom
The case Maryam Yahia from Sudan and the Islamic notions of free will
58
64 W
hat does Islam have to do with it?
A close look at the facts: FGM in the Horn of Africa
67 I nternational Women’s Day
Celebrating IWD in a Ugandan mosque
THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE
70 M
igration, modernity and imported culture
An argument in favour of Sudanese Islam
74 My Isl@m, by Amir Ahmad Nasr
BOOK: Introspection on identity and religion by a Sudanese blogger
76 H
ave we come a long way?
The resurrection of stoning
70
24 Battles at the female frontier in Sudan
How messages are transmitted from mothers to daughters
25 T
hink of getting married!
ART: A film-to-read by Amin Albahari from Sudan
27 W
omen from Darfur
A history of economic entitlements and participation shattered
30 O
f kind people and a religiously tolerant country
OPEN LETTER: I am a Christian Sudanese, says Nadia Waldo
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32 C
onnecting to the foremothers of Islam
Sitaad: Somali women‘s traditional devotional space
WO-MEN
36 A manly job
Abdifatah Hassan Ali, defending women’s rights in Somalia
38 B
ecoming a brother
A Sudanese journey to the support of my sister
41 P
alace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz
BOOK: Deconstructing patriarchy in Egypt
44 M
atriarchy & Islam? Yes
The harmonisation of religion and culture in West Sumatra
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DOSSIER: THE FEMALE BODY,
A CONTESTED LAND
80 T
he Sound of Music, by Akram Abdulquyoum and Salmmah Center
BOOK: A piece of Sudanese women’s history
82 Stepping from the past to the future in Sudan
A photographic essay reclaiming Sudanese women‘s fashion
88 A
man admits it is happening
FILM: Cairo 678, by Mohamed Diab exposes sexual harassment in Egypt
90 W
omen and the veil, by the Palestinian artist Laila Shawa
ART: A conversation about a complex relationship on canvas
94 Y
ou’re dark but you can be fixed
The politics and culture of skin bleaching in Sudan
96 Moolaadé, by Ousmane Sembéne from Senegal
FILM: One woman’s fight against female genital mutilation
98 Feminine Pains, by Dahabo Ali Muse from Somalia
POETRY: Words for survivors of female genital mutilation
46 T
he worms are weak
Male infertility – a female problem?
49 T
he unlawful law
The Public Order Law of Sudan dissected
88
100 The Echo
101 SIHA Publications
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SIHA is a regional Network
SIHA works to realise this vision
working in the Horn of Africa,
operating since 1995 with a
membership of over 80 women’s
civil society organisations in
the Horn of Africa – including
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia,
Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan and
Uganda.
through a network that is well
grounded within civil society and
regionally interactive while taking
account of global issues.
Our vision is that all women and
girls in the Horn of Africa must
have the right to live in a peaceful,
just environment and to exercise
their equal rights as human beings.
Accordingly Muslim women are
entitled to their spirituality, their
beliefs and their understanding of
their religion and their cultures.
SIHA implements capacity
building programs to grass roots
civil society, provides direct
support for women in conflict
and post conflict situations and
promotes women human rights
through advocacy and campaigning
activities.
Interweaving academia and activism
SIHA publications – handbooks,
manuals, booklets, research papers
and journals – are sources of
knowledge, practical ideas and tools
for respective programming and
projects to professionals, activists,
human right defenders, donors and
policy makers.
As SIHA we believe that the
power of women rights activists
and defenders in the Horn of Africa
is standing high against political
repression, fundamentalism and
restraining traditions.