To challenge the persistent silencing of Middle Eastern women and address their exclusion from histories of rhetoric, this presentation reads contributions of Lebanese and Arab feminists to Al-Raida (Pioneer) Journal from 1976-1985 as integral to understanding the foundations of Lebanese feminist discourse and contemporary transnational rhetorics. 

This research study is a feminist historiography of Al-Raida, a Lebanese feminist journal introduced in 1976 by the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University. 

The digital archive of the journal is available online, and links to issues are provided for further research: iwsaw.lau.edu.lb/publications/…