Citizenship and Gender Equality in the Cradle of the Arab Spring

2017 ◽  
pp. 27-52
Author(s):  
Amel Mili
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Arab Spring

scholarly journals Young women in Morocco: Perceptions about participation in the public sphere and gender equality

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Eva Zafra Aparici ◽  
Cristina Garcia-Moreno ◽  
Egbe Manfred Egbe
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moroccan Women ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Arab Spring

From a qualitative research in the cities of Fez and Meknes, this article analyses young women’s participation in the public sphere in Morocco. Specifically, we have had as reference the changes that have occurred since the so-called Arab Spring of 2011 where youths and feminism played an obvious role. Findings show that nine years after the Arab Spring, there has been no substantial improvements in the lives of Moroccan women in terms of gender equality. However, it is striking that they are very much present in participating in the public sphere from ‘grassroots’ (civic society, trade unions, etc.) levels where they find resources and spaces to get-together, create opportunities and make further progress in the fight for their rights.

“The War Took Us Backwards”

Hawwa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 266-308
Author(s):  
Sophia Pandya
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
And Gender ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Arab Spring

AbstractIf political activities (demonstration, revolution, war) can be understood as forms of ritual performance in which temporary social hegemonic inversions typically are followed by competing efforts to restore structure or define a new structure, then under what conditions would they offer potential for changes in family dynamics and gender roles? The past few years in Yemen have witnessed extraordinary political and socioeconomic turbulence, from the 2011 Arab Spring revolution to the 2015 brutal war. Yemeni families have been significantly impacted in myriad ways, including displacement, family separation, poverty, violence, unemployment, sectarian strife, disruption of education, and mental illness. Men and women have demonstrated a high level of public activism during the Arab Spring and the war, further altering family dynamics and the gendered social tapestry, in a highly patriarchal country. Social “disorder,” including modification of gender roles, is often challenged by those desiring to restore “order,” the “traditional” family structure, and patriarchy. This study analyzes gendered dimensions of the “Yemen Spring” and the subsequent war, with a particular focus on the link between gendered family dynamics and the sociopolitical landscape, also considering the role religion and religious groups play.

Language and gender in North Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatima Sadiqi
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
North African ◽  
International Language ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Global North ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Arab Spring

This essay investigates and contextualises the emergence and evolution of the discipline of ‘Language and Gender’ in North Africa in an attempt to remedy the underrepresentation of this region in scholarship. I ground this essay in my experiences with Language and Gender in Morocco and the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), both of which were central in shaping my academic journey. The pre- and post-Uprisings periods surrounding what is often discussed as the ‘Arab Spring’ in the early 2010s carried serious consequences for the emergence of Language and Gender as a discipline. These moments and my involvement in them were deeply impacted by specific historical, sociopolitical and intellectual dimensions, most saliently the women’s movement and the discipline of linguistics. My essay draws on these experiences to advocate for the importance of decolonising the international language and gender canon with North African perspectives that move beyond English and the Global North.

Did the Arab Spring lead to economic, institutional and sociopolitical changes? An empirical analysis through the perceptions of Egyptian youth

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Fakih ◽  
Pascal L. Ghazalian
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Youth Survey ◽  
Bivariate Ordered Probit ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

PurposeEgyptian youth played a central role in the Arab Spring (AS) uprisings, demanding bread, justice and opportunities. This paper examines the perceptions of young Egyptians about the AS through their responses on the economic, institutional and sociopolitical conditions in the pre-AS and post-AS periods.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical analysis relies on a micro-level dataset extracted from the SAHWA Youth Survey. The estimations are carried out through the bivariate ordered probit model.FindingsThe results reveal that the perceptions about the AS-related outcomes are not uniform, and that social values and ideological characteristics matter more than the standard socioeconomic attributes in comprehending the responses. They indicate that individuals with secularist, non-traditionalist and gender equality inclinations have generally formed more favorable perceptions about the AS-related changes. Also, the results suggest that the AS has generated propitious perceived conditions for further global connection, relative to the Arab and Islamic ties. They show that the perceptions of individuals who place credence in entrepreneurial attitude have been relatively unfavorable vis-à-vis the post-AS conditions.Originality/valueThe findings underscore the importance of comprehending the perceptions about the AS-related outcomes. They imply that the AS has produced “winners” and “losers,” and has laid down the basis for social transformations in Egypt.

Introduction

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Arab Spring

This chapter frames the discussion on resistance, revolution, and reform as three theoretical concepts that are addressed in this volume. The Arab Spring events brought new challenges to the fields of feminism, social revolutions, and gender politics as we know them. Editors Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad deliver the voices of activists and politicians as they fight for reforms, resist oppression, and engage in protests and revolutions to change regimes. This introduction features the historical, geographical, and thematic spaces of women’s agency before, during, and after the events of the Arab Spring.

scholarly journals The Arab Spring

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Comparative Political Science ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Military

The Arab world’s resilient autocracies are a central puzzle in the comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). But just as the Arab Spring was a critical juncture for MENA regimes, the popular uprisings that began in 2010 and 2011 also reoriented the study of MENA politics toward questions of social justice, redistribution, and inequality. Protesters, activists, and opposition groups articulated clear demands that aimed to dismantle systemic inequalities of political and economic opportunity after decades of failed neoliberal policies and cronyism. Identity groups and geographies conventionally considered peripheral to the study of MENA politics now featured as prime movers and arenas of contestation. This annotated bibliography focuses explicitly on these themes and their application to the study of the Arab Spring in comparative political science. The resources included in this guide fall under three main categories. The first grouping includes general and case-specific accounts of the Arab Spring. This includes not only zeitgeist cases like Tunisia and Egypt, but also those where the rapid spread of the Arab Spring forced changes to politics “as usual.” This includes second-wave cases like Sudan and Algeria, where protest movements coalesced several years following the Jasmine Revolution. The second category considers how structure and agency factor into analyses of regime strategy, contentious politics, political economy, the military, and political Islam. Third, the bibliography highlights the identity politics of the Arab Spring, including youth, minority populations, and gender.

scholarly journals Islamism, Secularism and the Woman Question in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring: Evidence from the Arab Barometer

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley M. Fox ◽  
Sana Abdelkarim Alzwawi ◽  
Dina Refki
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Women's Equality ◽  
The Arab Spring

The uprisings that led to regime change during the early period of the Arab Spring were initially inclusive and pluralistic in nature, with men and women from every political and religious orientation engaging actively in political activities on the street and in virtual spaces. While there was an opening of political space for women and the inclusion of demands of marginalized groups in the activists’ agenda, the struggle to reimagine national identities that balance Islamic roots and secular yearnings is still ongoing in many countries in the region. This paper seeks to deepen understanding of the extent to which the pluralistic sentiments and openness to accepting the rights women have persisted following the uprising. We aim to examine changes in attitudes towards women’s equality in countries that underwent regime change through popular uprisings during revolutionary upheavals of the Arab Spring and in countries where regimes have remained unchanged. Using available data from consecutive rounds of the Arab Barometer survey, we examine changes in attitudes in nine countries with two rounds of Arab Barometer during and post Arab Spring (Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine). We find that support for “Muslim feminism” (an interpretation of gender equality grounded in Islam) has increased over the period and particularly in Arab Spring countries, while support for “secular feminism” has declined. In most countries examined, relatively high degrees of support for gender equality co-exist with a preference for Islamic interpretations of personal status codes pertaining to women. We discuss the implications of these findings for academics and activists concerned with women’s rights in the Middle East North Africa (MENA).

scholarly journals Constitutional Matters: Women, State, Law, and Constitutions in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings

1970 ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Suad Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Country ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Arab Spring

Following the Arab Spring in 2011, constitutions and constitutional reforms were everywhere in the air in the Arab world. Constitutional matters were a must in critical conversations on women and gender rights in the Arab world at that historic moment. Egypt has reworked its constitution more than once since 2011. Constitutional debates mixed with debates about law and family codes were engaging diverse publics in Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia — and always in Lebanon — as well as many other Arab countries. Regardless of whether in a particular Arab country constitutions are changing or even the possibility of constitutional change is being discussed, it remains the case that constitutions are useful projects to think with and to think through for understanding gender, rights, and other key social issues.

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