Mhaissen, Rouba (Author)
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Volume: 40, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 74-79
The wave of revolutions that took a number of Middle Eastern and North African countries by storm reached Syria on March 15, 2011. What started as a popular uprising in fact has metamorphosed from peaceful protest into an armed revolution that continues to be met with violent repression and collective punishment from the Assad regime---increasing the daily toll of Syrians who are fleeing their country in search of security. More than 6 million Syrians have been displaced to date, half of whom are women. Among married women, countless cases seek refuge with their children, leaving their husbands behind: dead, missing, fighting, or wanted. Upon their arrival in Lebanon, many Syrian women who fled without their husbands settle in alone---thus becoming female heads of household. Others move in with relatives, in compliance with the patriarchal values governing their societies. This short piece aspires to go beyond patriarchal approaches representing Syrian women to shed some light on the shifting lives of those who fled without their husbands, leading daily revolutions over contested spaces, norms, and gender roles. This text argues that there is nothing more political, nothing more revolutionary, than women fighting daily battles, resisting hegemonies of states, crossing constructed national borders, and questioning traditional gender roles. Women in the spaces of the tents repoliticize everyday life and rearticulate the meaning of revolutions.
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