Empowering Arab Women Through Literacy
By Kerri Macdonald
September 10, 2013
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Laura Boushnak is a photographer. She was searching for a focus for her photography about Arab women when she read about the lack of women participating in the growth of Middle Eastern countries. The primary reason for this was because of the illiteracy rate of women in the Middle East due to lack of education. Boushnak started a project to promote education among Arab women. Her projects has helped change the lives of women around the Middle East just by teaching them how to read the words they are constantly shown on signs and street sides everyday. Boushnak's project inspired her photography, and now has pictures in the British Museum.
This is a great program for a great cause. Helping women learn to read and write and become more educated in the Middle East is essential to growth not only there, but worldwide. Helping women in the Middle East receive a good education will also benefit putting an end to problems in that region, because it will lower the sense of a patriarchal society where women are lesser citizens than men. More, and better, job opportunities will also become available to women. Over all, this could promote a sense of gender equality in the Middle East.
This issue pertains to Yemen's culture, because the reason that women are uneducated in states like Yemen is because of stress from your community to act a certain way. This is also an issue in Yemen as it is in most Middle Eastern countries. As described above, education for women will help build gender equality in Yemen and other Arab states. Not only that, but with the education of women in Yemen will come the ability for women to become more active in government. This diversity will hopefully aid in creating a balance of power between men and women, which will most likely benefit the country based on historical instances similar to this one. the education of Yemeni women is important in creating a more balanced and strengthened culture in Yemen.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/empowering-arab-women-through-literacy/
Laura Boushnak is a photographer. She was searching for a focus for her photography about Arab women when she read about the lack of women participating in the growth of Middle Eastern countries. The primary reason for this was because of the illiteracy rate of women in the Middle East due to lack of education. Boushnak started a project to promote education among Arab women. Her projects has helped change the lives of women around the Middle East just by teaching them how to read the words they are constantly shown on signs and street sides everyday. Boushnak's project inspired her photography, and now has pictures in the British Museum.
This is a great program for a great cause. Helping women learn to read and write and become more educated in the Middle East is essential to growth not only there, but worldwide. Helping women in the Middle East receive a good education will also benefit putting an end to problems in that region, because it will lower the sense of a patriarchal society where women are lesser citizens than men. More, and better, job opportunities will also become available to women. Over all, this could promote a sense of gender equality in the Middle East.
This issue pertains to Yemen's culture, because the reason that women are uneducated in states like Yemen is because of stress from your community to act a certain way. This is also an issue in Yemen as it is in most Middle Eastern countries. As described above, education for women will help build gender equality in Yemen and other Arab states. Not only that, but with the education of women in Yemen will come the ability for women to become more active in government. This diversity will hopefully aid in creating a balance of power between men and women, which will most likely benefit the country based on historical instances similar to this one. the education of Yemeni women is important in creating a more balanced and strengthened culture in Yemen.