Al-Raida

Al-Raida (English: The Woman Pioneer) is a bi-annual peer-reviewed feminist academic journal covering women's and gender studies. Established in 1976, it is published by the The Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University.[1] Its mission is to "enhance networking between Arab women and women all over the world".[2]

Al-Raida
DisciplineGender studies
LanguageArabic, English
Publication details
History1976–present
Publisher
FrequencyBi-annual
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Al-Raida
Indexing
ISSN0259-9953 (print)
2226-4841 (web)
Links

History

The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World was set up in 1973 at the Beirut University College, with funding from the Ford Foundation. This later morphed under the Lebanese American University. As the college was founded by Christian American missionaries, the journal was exclusively published in English for much of its history until the fall-winter edition of 2001 when an Arabic edition was published.[3] Al-Raida published special issues on women in Arab cinema, women and the Lebanese Civil War, women and work, and violence against women.[1] In 2013, the journal began publishing on a bi-annual basis as an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal, containing both scholarly and non-academic articles.[4] In 2017, all journal content was digitized and made available online.[5]

Reception

Al-Raida has been described as one of Lebanon's most successful feminist journals, recovering "a part of Lebanese feminist history that has been largely ignored".[6]

Notable editors

References
  1. Valentine M. Moghadam (2003). Modernizing women: gender and social change in the Middle East. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 284. ISBN 978-1-58826-171-7. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  2. "Publications: Al-Raida Journal | IWSAW". Lebanese American University. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
  3. Massad, Joseph (2015). Islam in liberalism. University of Chicago. pp. 145–6. ISBN 9780226206363.
  4. "Al-Raida Journal". Maqsurah.com. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  5. Santos de Carvalho, Juliana; Beghelli, Oliveira Beghelli (2021). Profile of Transboundary Feminist Journals (Report). Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. p. 4-5. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  6. Khoury, Nicole (June 2020). Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring. New York University Press. p. 208-216.
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