​This special issue of the Journal of International Women’s Studies takes a broad look at issues of disability within the Arab world. Half of the papers address issues about Arab women with disabilities while others focus on other various demographic groups such as children. Nonetheless, even as those articles have not fully integrated feminist theories or gendered frameworks, authors have endeavored to outline ways in which future research could and should take up critically important gender lenses and feminist frameworks. The Journal’s editorial team welcomed this publication with its future-oriented approach that urges interested researchers to build on the studies herein with an explicitly feminist vision for disability justice that fully integrates gender justice. Thus, in so doing, we encourage scholars, activists, and policymakers to regard this special issue of the JIWS as an opening to a body of work that will center on feminist disability studies. Feminist disability studies is a relatively new subfield of disability studies, burgeoning in the early 2000s and gaining influence across disciplines. As Rosemarie GarlandThomson writes in her seminal article in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,​