Women Rock the Syrian Revolution

Women in Syria want freedom, pluralism, democracy, and a civil state upholding equal human rights for all. Because of its shortness, this film only offers a tip-of-the-iceberg glimpse of women's roles in the Syrian revolution, but gives you a sense of their deep involvement, from the leadership to the masses. Nov. 2011. 4:48 minutes.

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• Syria
• women
• Suhair Atassi
• Razan Zaitouneh
• Tal al-Mallohi
• o Mohja Kahf
• Hanan Laham
• the Syrian Revolution
• civil resistance
• civil disobedience
• nonviolent struggle
• women in politics
• women in revolution
• Kurdish women
• Arab women
• Syrian Christians
• Druze in Syria
• Alawites in Syria
• Ismailia in Syria
• prisoners of conscience
• 2011
• freedom

[damascenequeen]

Live fire on women's protests has been more restrained, however, and it is certainly true that the large majority of casualties and detentions have been of men.

[damascenequeen]

Dear Lizrael, Thank you for your comment.That the protests have been largely male-populated is exactly the myth this video aims to dismantle. There have been women's street protests nearly every single day since protests began except possibly the first 5 days, and this can be documented by simple YouTube searches, yet coverage in world media seems not to air the footage on a regular basis, preferring the footage of male protesters.

[noura20]

Based on dozens and dozens of video clips from across Syria, I have seen that women are often just as involved in the protests as men. Some protests seem to even have a majority of women, or women and children.

[HutaafElhurriyyeh]

we are proud of HARA2ER syria يا حرائر سوريا تشرفوا الملايين

[TheFarahma]

very well done :))

[lizrael]

Thanks for this video and for highlighting women's role in the protests. I think, however, that it presents a picture that does not correlate with reality completely. Overall, the overwhelming majority of protests have been male-only, and as a result, the overwhelming majority of protesters who were killed are males. Protests are gender-segregated, for the most part, and women usually do not participate.