The article charts my trajectories as a feminist activist/academic seeking to research, write and talk about gender-based violence in relation to the Middle East. More specifically, I am drawing on research and activism in relation to Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon to map the discursive, political and empirical challenges and complexities linked to scholarship and activism that is grounded in both feminist and anti-racist/anti-Islamophobic politics. While reflecting on my positionality, the article aims to challenge the binary of activism and academia as well as Western and Middle Eastern contexts in terms of knowledge production.

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女权主义困境：如何谈论与中东有关的基于性别的暴力？

这篇文章描绘了我作为一名女权主义活动家/学者的轨迹，寻求研究、写作和谈论与中东有关的基于性别的暴力。更具体地说，我正在利用与伊拉克、土耳其和黎巴嫩有关的研究和激进主义来描绘与基于女权主义和反种族主义/反伊斯兰恐惧症政治的学术和激进主义相关的话语、政治和经验挑战和复杂性。在反思我的立场的同时，这篇文章旨在挑战行动主义和学术界以及西方和中东在知识生产方面的二元论。