Achieve Quote by Fatema Mernissi

Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance the civil…

— L. Neil Smith

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

— Dalia Mogahed

As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13…

— Rula Jebreal

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

— Roger Ebert

Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in…

— Nicholas Kristof

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way…

— Shimon Peres

At the same time women are putting on the headscarf, they are also going to work, to education, increasingly vocal in the media -…

— Munira Mirza

“If the world is to have a future, it lies in the hands of women. At time of this writing nearly half of all…

— A.C. Grayling

These words that you have heard regarding women in the future Islamic government are all hostile propaganda. In the Islamic Republic women have complete…

— Ayatollah Khomeini

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights…

— Ginny Brown-Waite

With the Arab Spring, came a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation, and opportunity for greater participation…

— Mitt Romney

The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women and…

— Maryam Namazie