Women’s Voices and the Media

  Speakers at our program “Women’s Voices and the Media,” July 1, 2016:          Martha Allen Director of WIFP Welcome and Introduction Natasha Mirza Understanding Rape Culture The term “Rape Culture” is a popular buzzword… Read More

Soraya 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