Womankind

Womankind

Making do • ANTONIA CASE

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Writers

Manifesto • What is a ‘good life’? What makes a life worth living?

THE MEANING OF MAKING • Writer and educator Ellen Dissanayake began a quest to investigate why she, and many women like her, had this unexplainable need to make things.

Asiatic cheetah

Happy inside

LIVING ON THE EDGE OF SPACE • “They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.”

STATE SHIFTING

The pilgrimage

Positive disintegration

The myth of normalcy

The complex order of things • The value we place on our personal lives must be held in balance with other essential values.

Courting a love of words • What happens if you fall in love with a new language and begin to court it?

The direction of hope • Iranian artist Narjes Mohammadi has the power to slow time as we observe her complex female figures in the stream of life.

Striking oil in the Kingdom • In 1938, an oil well was discovered in the Arabian desert - heralding Saudi Arabia’s arrival on the world stage.

LIFE LESSONS IN DRAWING • We often take an all or nothing approach to life, but sometimes all we need are a few small moments.

IN THE KINGDOM • Nicola Sutcliff, who lived and worked in Saudi Arabia for four years, interviewed and documented the lives on women from all corners of the Kingdom.

Dana Algosaibi • After 15 years travelling the world, Dana Algosaibi has found her balance in nature, animals, and living well.

Loulwa Alsharif • Although life has its obstacles, Loulwa Alsharif shows how happiness comes from taking time out to do what we love most.

Saa’da Al-Zahrani • After 28 years of marriage, Saa’da Muhammad Al-Zahrani made a difficult decision to change her life.

My trip to the night side • A cancer diagnosis is so familiar in all its cultural forms that when you receive the news that you are its subject, you already know the script. It’s only the ending that hovers in the realm of uncertainty.

We see nothing but sand • Sand is the key ingredient of modern civilisation.

ARTISTIC VISION • Fatimah Al Nemer uses her art to celebrate Saudi Arabian women from the past and the present.

WOMANKIND • Photographers’ Award XXIV

The Renaissance of Nabati • A successful Arab television show is reviving an ancient form of poetry.

BASIL OF CAESAREA

WOMANKIND’S Idleness challenge • Womankind readers were challenged to be idle for five minutes a day - a time to do absolutely nothing. This is how they fared.

A SCHOLAR’S LIFE • Cultural anthropologist Eva Nisa studied at Al-Azhar university in Egypt, regarded as one of the most prestigious universities in the world for Islamic learning.

The Bedouin • Hafsa, a travelling Bedouin, gave birth to eleven children in the Saudi Arabian desert.

Books

Documentaries

By RUMI