اذا كان حبيبك من عسل لا تلحسه كله

If Your Love is Made of Honey, Don’t Lick it All Up

This Arabic proverb seems a fitting injunction in a time of severe ecological degradation and can be applied to our relationship to our planet, whose precious resources and beauty we should be careful not to exhaust. This is also a time when there is a resurgence in some countries of devastating restrictions on the lives of many women. Both conditions stem from the bitter determination of some people to control life and nature at the expense of others.