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Grace Perriman

Grace Perriman is a desk editor at <em>The Majalla</em>. She was previously a freelance writer who penned Middle East-inspired travel writing and blogged the first year of the Syrian uprising from Damascus. Grace received her bachelor’s degree in Arabic and Persian from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. A keen traveler, she has journeyed overland from Istanbul to Cairo, Tangiers to Bamako, and has crisscrossed Iran.

Kuwait’s Tenacious Suffragettes

[caption id="attachment_55236165" align="alignnone" width="620"] Kuwaiti MPs (L-R) Salwa al-Jassar, Rola Dashti, Massuma al-Mubarak and Aseel al…

Non-Fiction Heroine

[caption id="attachment_55237101" align="alignnone" width="620"] Samar Yazbek in Saint Malo, France.[/caption] [inset_right]A Woman in the…

No Refuge in the Law

[caption id="attachment_55239691" align="alignnone" width="620"] Libyan women demonstrate outside the Libyan embassy in London on Libyan Women Pride…

Evolutionary, not Revolutionary

[caption id="attachment_55241806" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saudi students sit for their final high school exams at the end of the school year…

Michael Hastings, 1980–2013

[caption id="attachment_55242669" align="alignnone" width="620"] Michael Hastings at The LongView Gallery on May 1, 2012 in Washington, DC. PAUL…

Falling Through the Cracks

[caption id="attachment_55243244" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian Orthodox Christians attend a mass marking Palm Sunday on April 28, 2013 at…

The Damascus Express

[caption id="attachment_55244234" align="alignnone" width="620"] A scene from Round Trip (Meyar Al Roumi, 2012)[/caption] His voice was soft and…

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