On 7 May 2015, the Institute of Women’s Studies, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and with “Shashat,” organized a workshop on the “Challenges Palestinian women face from their perspective.” Areej Abu Eid, via skype, first spoke about her experience as a female filmmaker in the Gaza Strip, which was then followed by the screening of two films produced by young Palestinian female filmmakers.

The workshop was the initiative of two graduates of the Institute's MA progam in Gender and Development Studies that were part of a research group formed in Adania Shibli's course in the program on visual culture and gender. The research group, under Shibli, together wrote a chapter on Palestinian screenwriters for a book on female screenwriters that was published in English. The chapter was also published in Arabic in the Journal of Palestine Studies under the title "Shashat al-Makan” and can be accessed here: http://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/mdf-articles/134-148.pdf