Révoltées - Les femmes du printemps arabe

Arabellinnen - Frauen des Arabischen Frühlings

The Female Body

El cuerpo femenino

Kobiece ciało

Il corpo delle donne

Women's bodies have long been an ideological battleground, and in the Arab world, virginity is often prized and women's healthy sexual impulses considered shameful. Today's young women are fighting against standards that they say are outdated. 

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Women of the Arab Spring

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The Women of the Arab Spring

Women's bodies have long been an ideological battleground

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Arab women are determined to bring about change in any way they can. Since the Arab Spring they haven't rested on their laurels: they are mayors, activists, governors, government advisors, and deputies.

Arab women are determined to bring about change in any way they can

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Art, TV and culture all have their part to play in critiquing society and pushing for change. During the Arab Spring, it was street art and the slogans sprayed on walls that galavnised the crowds; nowadays, it's comic and TV shows. 

Art, TV and culture all have their part to play in critiquing society and pushing for change

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The Arab Spring borught questions around economic equalities and living standards to the fore. Women don't want to cook the pie - they want their slice of it. Freedom means the freedom to be financially independent.

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Some feminists reject Islam and religion wholesale, claiming that female freedom and worship are fundamentally opposed to one another. But other Arab women argue that their religion can be a source of strength, and the idea of the frail, subjugated Muslim woman is a colonialist stereotype.

Some feminists reject Islam and religion wholesale, saying that female freedom and worship can't go together

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After two months of fighting, the Russian troops had their advance towards the West blocked by fierce Ukrainian resistance. Forced to leave the suburbs of Kyiv, the occupying army left behind mass graves and horrific accounts of rape and abuse in their wake. Russia is now turning its efforts to the Dobas and the coastline along the Sea of ​​Azov. In Kyiv, the return of spring is also the return of many residents who had fled.

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Far away from the South Korean capital of Seoul is the Buddhist Gameunsa Temple. Three nuns live, pray and cook together here as they preserve the knowledge of centuries-old temple cuisine. The abbess of this small monastery is the charismatic Wookwan Sunim, revered in Asia as one of the best cooks in the world.

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The literary source for Richard Strauss’s opera immortalizing the degeneracy of Herodes Antipas, King of Judea, and his step-daughter Salome, was supplied by Oscar Wilde. It tells of Herodes, who is keeping the prophet Jochanaan captive inside a cistern. Salome tries to seduce him and on being rebuffed, forces her stepfather to serve her the prophet’s head on a silver platter.

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"They called us: 'Tutsi! Tutsi!' They took you out of the tent and did what they wanted with you." 

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In 2020, for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Philippe Jordan and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra recreated the mythical evening of December 22 1808, when  the composer presented his Sixth Symphony, also known as his Pastoral.

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