Welcome to Unootha’s Journal, a themeless space for women in the MENA to share their work whenever they want to, however they want to! The work you share in our journal is yours to define. This is your oyster to conquer. To submit, follow the same guidelines here, though remember that you are not confined to any theme or time limit.
“Obviously, as soon as you decide to start something, you don’t know how to. I didn’t know how to go about it and I kept overthinking things like, ‘do I need actors?’ ‘Do I need people to help?’ So I decided to do something that was really simple, but something that still had influence or impact of some kind, and I really wanted to do it my way.”
Read MoreI am a British-Kuwaiti-Palestinian woman; I spent my childhood in a suburban area of North London and my teenage years in the conservative city of Jeddah. I am fortunate enough to have a few places to call home, although being part of the Palestinian diaspora, it has always been an abstract concept.
Read MoreThe following artworks relate to the importance of being connected, feeling safe, and discovering more about your soul (identity). Quarantine made me realize the importance of connecting with our environments, and how that can impact the way we connect with others.
Read MoreWhat is important to fully take into consideration right now is that racism is not a Western phenomena; it is a hateful, violent construct that transcends borders and languages. It is a tool for division and stratification that has no place in our communities, past, future or present.
In this time, and for as long as you live, we urge you to look, listen, observe, absorb, acknowledge, and act.
“I miss my life. my other life. my bigger life. my active, lively life. this one feels small and predictable. while my normal life was also quite predictable, at least it had some element of spontaneity, of seeing other people, of enjoying my solitude in the company of fellow solitary beings.”
Read MoreUmmkulthum shares her magical words in the form of poetry and prose: “Is that the Garden of Eden in your eyes? For I could almost swear I spotted the River of Honey.”
Read MoreIn the Arab World, particularly in the Gulf, there is a culture of perfection, of being untouchable in the face of struggle. You will often hear the phrases, “What will people think?”, “What about your family’s reputation?” or even, “ People will think we didn’t raise you right.”
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