The Women’s Institute for Freedom of the PressSoraya Chemaly receives 2016 Women and Media Award
The Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press presented the 2016 Women and Media Award to Soraya Chemaly, a writer and activist focused on the role of gender in culture, politics, religion, and media. WIFP staff gathered for the ceremony… Read More
Invitation to join us July 1 and the program.
Join us Friday, July 1, for an evening of presentations on topics including the resurgence of self-published zines by young women; exploring women’s voices in media in Bangladesh’s garment industry; understanding rape culture; how accounts of war are… Read More
Weaving Our Way: Personal Stories of Identity
Another WIFP booklet! Introduction When discussing some of our life experiences in the WIFP office one day, we got onto the topic of identity. Then and there, the four of us decided to write essays about how… Read More
Presentation and Discussion on FGM
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): New Efforts in the Campaign for Eradication by Elana Denise Anderson, PhD WIFP Associate Director In a world where war has become a common occurrence with its victims hailing from every walk of life, it… Read More
New Kurdistan Magazine “For You”
by Cherrie Yu and Kavya Padmanabhan Hanar Marouf, in Washington, DC for a few months, visted the WIFP office and told us about the exciting project that she has launched. Marouf describes the magazine as “the first English… Read More
Shirin Neshat: Facing History
Facing History will be at the Hirshhorn Museum until September 20, 2015 By Cherrie Yu Shirin Neshat was born in Qazvin, Iran in 1957. She lived in Iran until! 1975 when she left for the US to attend… Read More
WIFP’s Event – Beyond Conflict: Women in Palestine and Israel
Yaara Elazari and Abeer Shehadeh organized, moderated and presented at our event with the support of other WIFP folks including Martha Allen, Cherrie Yu, Kavya Padmanabhan, Riley Horan and Helena Leslie. Participants from New Story Leadership for the… Read More
Invitation – “Beyond Conflict: Women in Palestine and Israel”
Join us July 17 at WIFP! The event is organized and moderated by WIFP’s Yaara Elazari and Abeer Shehadeh, with the support of Martha Allen, Kavya Padmanabhan, Cherrie Yu, Riley Horan and Helena Leslie.
WIFP Voices from Israel-Palestine
Yaara and Abeer are currently participating in New Story Leadership program of 2015, which selects young emerging Israeli and Palestinian leaders and trains them into a team ready to help build a better future for their two… Read More
Working With Women’s Rights Activists in Beijing
By Cherrie Yu, WIFP In the summer of 2014, after my freshman year at William and Mary, I returned to China for the first time since I went to college. I spent two weeks at home and then… Read More
