{"id":710,"date":"2011-05-25T18:28:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2011-05-25T18:28:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:28:36","slug":"palestines-silent-feminist-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/25\/palestines-silent-feminist-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine&#8217;s silent feminist revolution (BBC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently come back from a trip to Palestine where I was walking on a new hiking trail, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abrahampath.org\/palestine.php\">Abraham&#8217;s Path<\/a><\/strong>, and where I stayed with a Palestinian family in the village of Kufr Malek. I was very struck by how the village women were striving to get themselves educated and into the workplace, often earning more than the men. Tourism projects, such as Abraham&#8217;s Path, were playing an important part in this.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke about this rise of women in Palestinian society on the BBC World Service programme <strong>&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/console\/p00grpmy\">From Our Own Correspondent<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;\u00a0 (04.40 min into the podcast) on Thursday 26 May. If you&#8217;d like to read it, the full text of my piece will shortly be available under this photo of the Bedouin <em>sheikh<\/em>\u00a0 (in whose tent I also stayed in Palestine).<\/p>\n<p>And if you are based in the UK and want to walk on Abraham&#8217;s Path in Palestine,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mejourneys.com\/\">this company<\/a><\/strong> can arrange it for you. If you are not in the UK contact <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkpalestine.com\/\">this organisation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently come back from a trip to Palestine where I was walking on a new hiking trail, Abraham&#8217;s Path, and where I stayed with a Palestinian family in the village of Kufr Malek. I was very struck by how the village women were striving to get themselves educated and into the workplace, often earning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[16,27,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}