Citizenship and Participation in Public Life – Middle East

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-82
Author(s):  
Berge Trabousli
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Life

Women’s Digital Activism

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-124
Author(s):  
Annabelle Sreberny
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Female Presence ◽  
The Many ◽  
Social Agendas

One of the many transformations that is taking place across the Middle East and North Africa region is women's engagement with new communications technologies and their increasing involvement in public life. Despite the initial enthusiasms of the uprisings of 2011, the region is now in considerable turmoil and digital developments are only slowly rolling out across the region. Using Mouffe's notion of the “political” as what is put into public contention in a society, the chapter explores how women in various countries across the Middle East are using and appropriating these new communication tools, especially social media, finding their voices and setting new social agendas for action, many of which revolve around issues of the body and female presence in public space.

scholarly journals Women of Fes

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Emilio Spadola
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Public Space ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Family Code ◽  
Mega Cities

The city of Fes, the once “bourgeois citadel” (J. Berque’s words) of Moroccoand once the world’s most populous city (1170-80), has in modernity beenunhappily bypassed for coastal trading hubs and global mega-cities. Materialand symbolic elements of Fassi power persist, however, and anthropologistRachel Newcomb’s finely researched and written ethnography identifies them in upper-middle-class women’s gender identity. In so doing, Women ofFes helps the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and Islamicstudies to illuminate the often-neglected power of class to shape gender in theMuslim Middle East and North Africa, demonstrating, not pointedly, thatclass divides women within as much as across cultures.Newcomb’s book concerns women of, not merely in, Fes, namely, a classof women of “original” Fassi families navigating the social ruins and newopportunities of daily urban life. Its disparate topics – urban rumors, women’sNGOs, reforms of the Moroccan Muslim family code (mudawanah), flexiblekinship, public space, a dépassé lounge singer – shift the book’s centerfrom class to gender and public life. Her skillful identification of class issueswithin the latter, however, gives the book a necessary coherence ...

Rethinking religion and political legitimacy across the Islam–West divide

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 439-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nader Hashemi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Contention ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Question ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Religion In Public Life

The relationship between religion and politics is a bone of political contention and a source of deep confusion across the Islam–West divide. When most western liberals cast their gaze on Muslim societies today, what they see is deeply disconcerting. From their perspective there is simply too much religion in public life in the Arab-Islamic world, which raises serious questions for them about the prospects for democracy in this part of the world. This article critically explores the relationship between religion and political legitimacy with a geographical and cultural focus on the Muslim Middle East. The broad historical question that shapes this inquiry is: Why is religion a source of political legitimacy in Muslim societies today while in the West, broadly speaking, religion is a source of disagreement and illegitimacy?

scholarly journals Europe and the Arab World

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-108
Author(s):  
Amr G. E. Sabet
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Arab State ◽  
Traditional System

Concise, succinct, and informative, this book skillfully elucidates andassesses the patterns, prospects, and complexities of Arab-European relationscontextualized in a globalizing (read “Americanizing”) world. It alsoidentifies the ambiguities and limitations of social movements and struggleswithin the Arab world, as well as their implications for mutual relationships(p. vi). The authors’ main thesis is that both global capitalism and theAmerican determination to construct a “new” Middle East in its own imagehave undermined the possibilities of domestic reforms and external realignmentsin most Arab countries. American hegemonic influence, together withthe growing sway of politicized Islam on public life, have added more limitationsand constraints to other failures to transform the underlying economicand political structures defining the relations between members onboth sides of the Mediterranean.The book comprises four chapters: three written by Amin (chapters 1, 2,and 4), and one (chapter 3) by El Kenz. The first chapter is a critical surveyof conditions in the Arab world in general and that of the Arab “state” in particular.Amin designates the latter structure as a manifestation of “mamelukepower,” reflecting a complex traditional system that has merged the personalizedpower of warlords, businessmen, and men of religion (p. 3). The Arabstate, he argues, has never really embraced or understood modernity. Egypt,Syria, and the Ottoman Empire underwent a first phase of ineffective modernizationduring the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The secondphase was associated with the populist nationalism of Nasserism, Baathism,and the Algerian revolution between the 1950s and 1970s. With the end ofthis phase, a multiparty system gave way to a paradoxical regression into themameluke type of autocracy (pp. 10-12). Whereas Europe broke with itspast, which allowed for its modern progress, the Arabs have not. Amin identifiesmodernity with such a historical break as well as with secularism, thedifferentiation of religion and politics, the emancipation of women, and therest of the term’s conventional elements (pp. 2-3).He criticizes currents “claiming to be Islamic” (p. 6), particularly thoseof the Wahhabi type, viewing Islamic militant groups as manifestations of arevolt against “destructive” capitalism and “deceptive” modernity (p. 6),more interested in sociopolitical issues than in matters of theology. Amin dismissesIran as being no different, although he provides no details (p. 8), and ...

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franck Salameh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
The Arab Spring

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This volume explores the lives, thought, and works of some twelve Levantine literati, while assessing the possibility of valorizing a greater degree of pluralism in Middle Eastern public life, even as the modern Middle East as we have come to know it through the twentieth century seems to have “collapsed” in the aftermath of the 2010 events formerly known as the “Arab Spring.” Such pluralism may be found in a number of salient features of Levantine society, among them Levantinism, Mediterraneanism, Pharaonism, Phoenicianism, and Syrianism. Indeed, the authors considered in this volume have dramatically shifted their opinions and orientations over the years, often in meteoric bouts and at breakneck speed.

The Other Middle East

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franck Salameh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Arab Spring

This book is an original collection of Middle Eastern literature (Levantine literature). It offers a glimpse into a contemporary Middle East that defies common Western misconceptions and prejudices. Compiled over the course of more than two decades, the featured prose and poetry in translation reveals an extraordinary diversity of ethnicities, religions, languages, and cultures, and a surprising range of sentiments and ideas, that provide Western readers with a powerful new understanding of the rich mosaic that is the contemporary Middle East. The book explores the lives, thought, and works of some twelve Levantine literati, while assessing the possibility of valorizing a greater degree of pluralism in Middle Eastern public life, even as the modern Middle East as we have come to know it through the twentieth century seems to have “collapsed” in the aftermath of the 2010 events formerly known as the “Arab Spring.”

scholarly journals عروض مختصرة

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (83) ◽  
pp. 231-225
Author(s):  
حنان لطفي زين الدين
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Life ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Constitutional Democracy ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Gender Culture

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