Women of Palestine in their Israeli jails (Hamid Dabashi, Al Jazeera)

In his now legendary painting, Women of Algiers in their Apartment/Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement (1834, oil on canvas), Eugene Delacroix captured something so provocative, so elemental, about Arab and Muslim women at the height of the European Orientalist painting that a century-and-a-half later the eminent Algerian novelist, artist, and feminist Assia Djebar (1936-2015), used the very same title for her groundbreaking collection of short stories, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment(1980), turning the Delacroix painting upside down and celebrating the beauty and resilience of Algerian (Arab) women in face of multiple tyrannies.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/women-palestine-israeli-jails-160501060423689.html