Amos Gitai's outraged portrait of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and its oppression of women takes on the tone of a psychological horror film.
But the weeks of fuss, in one of the few Arab countries with a vigorous legislature, underscore the enduring sensitivity of women's issues in Arab societies.Since 1899, when Qasim Amin, an Egyptian writer, published a seminal treatise blaming his society's backwardness on its oppression of women, Arab women have advanced, a little.
If this weary continent is now able to muster an aim, an idea, a vision, it is to put an end to conflict, division and ethnic oppression on its soil.
The infamous center of resistance to apartheid — South Africa's entrenched system of white supremacy — the township was a symbol of poverty and oppression on the one hand and heroism and sacrifice on the other.
Analysis directed at exploring how peers were achieving these results suggested five key characteristics of the ways peers were doing their jobs that facilitated their perceived effectiveness: Peers draw upon their own life experiences, especially experiences of distress, poverty, and oppression, on the one hand, and experiences of recovery and resilience, on the other.
The Russian writ runs again in the Caucasus -- but with freedom, not oppression, on its banners.
Whether I like it or not, I carry centuries of oppression on my head.
In modern psychological usage, the term has been applied to the type of nightmare that gives one the feeling of a heavy weight or oppression on the chest and stomach.
It was seeing a nation express their freedom from political oppression on public walls that first influenced her to become a street artist.
It belongs to the Mideast, to Africa, South America, and to every area of oppression on the globe.
