Actor Cynthia Nixon said her son is on a hunger strike in support of Gaza while pushing to halt America's arming of Israel. Nixon, an activist and one-time gubernatorial candidate, made the ...

When Soueif goes on hunger strike, she is not only “Alaa’s mother,” she also embodies a broader maternal function: a mother who refuses silent rage and addresses the state with her hunger.

“Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon said her trans son, a biological female, is an “observant Jew” who is currently on a hunger strike in Chicago to support Gaza, according to Newsweek.

The mother of a pro-democracy activist imprisoned in Egypt is seriously ill in a London hospital after resuming a hunger strike aimed at pressing for her son’s release, her family said Friday.

Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed British Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was hospitalized Friday after 242 days on hunger strike, with doctors warning she’s at risk of “sudden death ...

A Mother’s Hunger Strike Challenges Two Nations Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal protest. By Sam Knight ...