評論
打印
Now to the second potential misunderstanding.
至于第二個可能的誤解
I've been talking a lot about my experiences in the Middle East, and some of you might be thinking now
我一直在談論我在中東地區的經歷，你們有些人可能在想
that the solution then is for us to educate Muslim and Arab societies to be more inclusive of their women.
問題的解決方案在于教育穆斯林和阿拉伯社會對女性更加包容
If we were to do that, they would be more successful. They do not need this kind of help.
如果我們要那么做，她們可以更加成功。她們不需要這種幫助
Women have been part of the most influential movements coming out of the Middle East,
女人參與了中東地區的最有影響力的運動
but they tend to be invisible to the international community.
但她們對于國際社會來說是隱形的
Our cameras are largely focused on the men
我們的攝像頭大部分都對準了
who often end up involved in the more confrontational scenes that we find so irresistible in our news cycle.
那些在讓我們屏息的新聞場景中直接對抗的男人們
And we end up with a narrative that not only erases women from the struggles in the region
我們通常以一種不僅抹平了地區斗爭中的女人
but often misrepresents the struggles themselves.
而且錯誤描述了運動本身的敘事方法
In the late 1980s, an uprising started in Gaza, and quickly spread to the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
在20世紀80年代后期，一場起義發端于加沙，迅速傳播到西岸地區和東耶路撒冷
It came to be known as the First Intifada,
這場起義后來被稱為“巴勒斯坦大起義”
and people who have any visual memory of it generally conjure up something like this:
任何對這場起義仍有視覺記憶的人一般會想起這樣的場景：
Palestinian men throwing rocks at Israeli tanks.
巴基斯坦男人向以色列坦克扔石塊
The news coverage at the time made it seem like stones, Molotov cocktails and burning tires
當時的新聞報道讓它看起來好像石頭、燃燒彈和燃燒的輪胎
were the only activities taking place in the Intifada.
是在這場起義中出現的所有東西
