If you’ve ever heard the saying “breakdown before the breakthrough”, then you have some idea of what the women’s movement in the Middle East looks like. Rarely, on good faith and kind gestures, do women in the region get anything handed to them in terms of equality and rights . It’s almost always a fight. Every advance for women can be linked back to a significant event which triggered outrage or brought global attention to the issue. In 2013, many women activists and woman-specific issues dominated trending media and news ...