We want to support them and want them to know that there are other women with similar problems. The world today is advancing so much and they have to keep up with it. On the other hand, I also love news about fashion and exercise. There are serious articles, but there is also stuff for people who are interested in the entertainment world and makeup and fashion. Here there is an article about manicures and pedicures.
Every woman likes to read about that.
Still, says Deneis Assad, an assistant lecturer in the philosophy of education at Haifa University, the magazine is unlikely to be a frontrunner in any social revolution or in bringing about social changes in Arab society. And in an attempt to be open and modern, she says, the editors may actually be pushing sexist stereotypes. She points out the double-spread layout of the distinctly slinky lingerie in the second issue. But then it's undercut by having this spread of a supermodel - written by a male reporter who specifies her measurements, like in Playboy, as if she were a piece of meat. She's just another Barbie.