Today is International Women's Day. In the Middle East, the day has traditionally been a time to reflect on how women remain the region's repressed majority, denied basic rights in most countries and legally treated as the property of their male relatives.
But a demonstration yesterday in Kuwait reveals a new way to celebrate the day. 500 Kuwaiti activists, mostly women, demonstrated outside parliament to demand female suffrage. Women in full-body abayas and women in jeans marched together, holding signs reading "Now" (no, not the National Organization of Women, whose website carries no news of the Kuwaiti demo) and "We are not less, you are not more. We need a balance, open the door."
It's already being dubbed the "Blue Revolution." Check out awesome photos of the demo at this blogsite and this one. The story didn't get much US media coverage, but it's one of the more daring celebrations of International Women's Day - and it even attracted male supporters (see the photo below of Mohammed Ghader addressing the rally):
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