Balsam Mustafa

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the department of Politics and International Studies in the University of Warwick. My project will be the first interdisciplinary study to assess cyberfeminist networks in four Arab countries: Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Yemen. Conceptualising cyberfeminists as embodied activists who negotiate on-line and off-line challenges, the project will break new ground by examining the impact of gender, religion, ethnicity and class, in addition to country-specific context, upon women’s ability to mobilise for social change. The project will provide novel insights into local and regional battles for women’s rights.