VIDEO: Are We Losing a Valuable Feminist Project in the Middle East?

Can the AANES be used as a model of a secular, egalitarian state in the Middle East, or will it be lost to authoritarianism and violence? ICSVE’s tenth Zoom conference will cover the successes of the AANES feminist style of governance as well as human rights abuses targeting women in Turkish-occupied areas in the aftermath of Operation Olive Branch and Operation Peace Spring. The panelists will look at the gap in women's rights, equality, and representation between AANES-controlled areas of Syria and Turkish-controlled areas of Syria and discuss how to nurture a very valuable feminist project, unheard of in the Middle East. The speakers include Ambassador Peter Galbraith, Syrian Democratic Council Representative to the US Sinam Mohamad, Amy Austin Holmes and Meghan Bodette.