Discrimination suffered by women throughout the world can be examined through two principal lenses: nationality and class, especially in Arab countries. The reasons for discrimination against women, the means employed and the manner of oppression vary. At the theoretical level, the fact that women belong to different social classes and to separate national groups makes it difficult to identify shared interests among all. Nonetheless, all women have an interest in advancing a struggle to improve their position on the social ladder, since their present low status is a result of their gender. However, on the practical level, a call for complete and immediate liberation from male authority may leave many women without physical or economic protection[1]. This paper is structured by four themes to illuminate women’s social status in Arab countries.

[1] Samar Khamis .Twofold Discrimination: The Status of the Arab Woman as an Individual and as a Member of a National Collective Struggling for its Rights.

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