Al-Raida, The Pioneer, is a bi-annual interdisciplinary semi peer-reviewed journal published by the Arab Institute for Women (AiW) at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut, Lebanon. The Institute strengthens research on and by women in the Arab region at national, regional, and international levels and provides much-needed perspectives to global discourses on women and gender equality in the Arab region. Al-Raida is the Institute’s signature journal, and has been in publication since May 1976. More than three decades after its first appearance, in 2013, Al-Raida was turned into a biannual interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal that contains scholarly articles of international standards as well as non-academic articles. Al-Raida continues to invite submissions that enrich the debate on women in the Arab world, whether in the form of interviews, opinion pieces, testimonials, short stories, poems, or essays.

Al-Raida, The Pioneer, is a bi-annual interdisciplinary semi peer-reviewed journal published by the Arab Institute for Women (AiW) at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut, Lebanon. The Institute strengthens research on and by women in the Arab region at national, regional, and intern...