Nawal al Saadawi writes that the “liberation of women is by necessity dependent on the liberation of the land as well as liberation from economic, cultural and media domination.” (1988, p.1). As an information, media and gender studies scholar, I am drawn to the observation on Arab feminism that “if the 1890s print revolution gave rise to the Arab women’s press, creating new forms of outreach and connection among women, the 1990s information revolution opened up unprecedented opportunities for transnational and global networking” (Badran and Cooke 1990, xvii). More specifically, I am drawn to how infrastructures of power, information management and media are negotiated and transformed by Arab feminist movements’ information activism, and what we can learn from them. English-language scholarship around Arab women has largely focused on their use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the Arab Uprisings. While much of this body of scholarship has been crucial for recognizing the tactics used by activists, the large focus and credit tend to be given to the technology itself. There remains a need for contextual considerations of information that is comprehensive in its evaluation of media. Borrowing from my dissertation work on Arab women’s movements, this presentation situates digital activism by addressing histories of cross-regional Arab feminist organizations, such as the Arab Feminist Union, and the communications outputs they wrote and circulated from the twentieth century. The presentation investigates how Arab feminism has long had to refuse and navigate colonial heteropatriarchal manipulation of their calls for liberation, and showcases the immense contributions from key Arab feminist publications of the twentieth century. The aim of this presentation is to provide context to the use of digital media by feminist movements in the MENA today through tracing the genealogy of using communications media for the collective project of liberation. Nahid Toubia, eds. 1988 “Women of the Arab World: The Coming Challenge” Papers of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association Conference. London; Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books. Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke, eds. 1990. Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.