Citizenship and Gender in the Arab World

1970 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Arab World ◽  
State Transitions ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender

There are few topics as emotionally charged as the issue of full citizenship rights for women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Today, in no country in the Arab world do women enjoy the same rights as men with respect to transferring citizenship to their children and spouses. This form of discrimination not only taints the family life of hundreds of thousands of Arab women, it also severely burdens their “alien” children and husbands, blocking their access to education, welfare services, career advancement, social and political integration, and cultural assimilation. Viewed from the perspective of the host society, an Arab woman who marries outside the confines of her respective nation-state transitions from the authority of her father’s house to that of an alien household. She is now ostensibly under the control of the cultural norms and legal codes of her husband’s homeland.

scholarly journals Empowering Women, Developing Society: Female Education in the Middle East and North Africa

1970 ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
Faraneh Roudi-Fahimi ◽  
Valentine M. Moghadam
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
School Enrolment ◽  
Mena Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Secondary School Enrolment ◽  
And Gender

Education is a key part of strategies to improve individuals' well-being and societies' economic and social development. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (countries and territories included in the Middle East and North Africa as defined here are listed in Table 1), access to education has improved dramatically over the past few decades, and there have been a number of encouraging trends in girls' and women's education (see Figure 1). Primary school enrolment is high or universal in most MENA countries, and gender gaps in secondary school enrolment have already disappeared in several countries. Women in MENA countries are also more likely to enrol in universities than they were in the past.

The Paradox between Women’s Educational Attainment and Social Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elhum Haghighat
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Process Improvements ◽  
Modernization Process

Modernization theory predicts a strong correlation between increased access to education and positive changes in women’s social status and eventual social mobility. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, women’s increased access to education deviates from the expectations of the modernization perspective. While the MENA region is going through a modernization process, improvements in women’s social status still lags due to limited opportunities in the job market and their exclusion in the political arena.

scholarly journals Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Rachid Ouaissa ◽  
Friederike Pannewick ◽  
Alena Strohmaier
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Central Interest ◽  
Transformation Processes

Abstract This essay collection is the outcome of interdisciplinary research into political, societal, and cultural transformation processes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg, Germany. It builds on many years of collaboration between two research networks at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies: the research network “Re-Configurations: History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa” (2013–19), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the Leibniz-Prize research group “Figures of Thought | Turning Points: Cultural Practices and Social Change in the Arab World” (2013–20), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Both research projects’ central interest lay in the political, social, and cultural transformation that has become especially visible since 2010–11; we conceptualize this transformation here using the term “re-configurations.” At the core of the inquiry are interpretations of visions of past and future, power relations and both political and symbolic representations.

The Paradox between Women’s Educational Attainment and Social Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-84
Author(s):  
Elhum Haghighat
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Process Improvements ◽  
Modernization Process

Modernization theory predicts a strong correlation between increased access to education and positive changes in women’s social status and eventual social mobility. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, women’s increased access to education deviates from the expectations of the modernization perspective. While the MENA region is going through a modernization process, improvements in women’s social status still lags due to limited opportunities in the job market and their exclusion in the political arena.

Fascism in the Middle East and North Africa

2015 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Gilbert Achcar
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
World War ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

This chapter regards as “fascist” attempts to build mass movements on the basis of three elements: paramilitary organization, ultranationalism and totalitarianism. Most discussions of fascism in the MENA region seek to pin the fascist label on Arab movements opposed to British and French colonialism and/or to Zionism. The claim that fascist movements were present in Arab countries from the 1930s until the end of the Second World War is based on the assumption that “the Arabs” were sympathetic to the Axis powers. However, only three organizations and a less formal political current in the Arab world were truly inspired by European fascism: the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP); the Lebanese Phalangist Party (al-Kata’ib); the Young Egypt movement (Misr al-Fatat); and the Arab nationalist current in Iraq whose key figures belonged to Al-Muthanna Club circles. Despite animosity toward British colonial domination and Zionism, it is striking how limited the impact of fascism and Nazism in the Arab world remained.

What about the Children?

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-136
Author(s):  
Sandra Patton-Imani ◽  
Sandra Patton-Imani
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender

I consider the political context of family-making in the “family values” era of the 1990s. I explore public controversies over the children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman (1989) in relation to political discourse on race, gender, and family values in the 1990s. I consider parallel discussions of motherhood, fitness, and citizenship in public discussions about same-sex marriage, social welfare benefits, disability, and immigration. I explore changes in adoption policies as a strategy for neoliberal privatization. Considering these public narratives about “illegitimate,” “illegal,” and “unfit” mothers and children together illuminates intersecting axes of power regulating their access to the full range of citizenship rights, including race, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, and gender. Exploring this political moment is crucial to understanding the complex and contradictory ways the same-sex marriage and adoption debates are intimately connected to reproductive politics.

The Dupont family: collectors, dealers and naturalists in nineteenth-century Paris

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Mearns ◽  
Laurent Chevrier ◽  
Christophe Gouraud
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Natural History ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Anatomical Models ◽  
The Family ◽  
Small Collection

In the early part of the nineteenth century the Dupont brothers ran separate natural history businesses in Paris. Relatively little is known about their early life but an investigation into the family history at Bayeux corrects Léonard Dupont's year of birth from 1795 to 1796. In 1818 Léonard joined Joseph Ritchie's expedition to North Africa to assist in collecting and preparing the discoveries but he did not get beyond Tripoli. After 15 months he came back to Paris with a small collection from Libya and Provence, and returned to Provence in 1821. While operating as a dealer-naturalist in Paris he published Traité de taxidermie (1823, 1827), developed a special interest in foreign birds and became well known for his anatomical models in coloured wax. Henry Dupont sold a range of natural history material and with his particular passion for beetles formed one of the finest collections in Europe; his best known publication is Monographie des Trachydérides (1836–1840). Because the brothers had overlapping interests and were rarely referred to by their forenames there has been confusion between them and the various eponyms that commemorate them. Although probably true, it would be an over-simplification to state that birds of this era named for Dupont refer to Léonard Dupont, insects to Henry Dupont, and molluscs to their mother.

Transitions Within Queer North African Cinema

Screen Bodies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter S. Temple
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
North African ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
African Cinema ◽  
Queer Cinema

In recent years, North African queer cinema has become increasingly visible both within and beyond Arabo-Orientale spaces. A number of critical factors have contributed to a global awareness of queer identities in contemporary Maghrebi cinema, including the dissemination of films through social media outlets and during international film festivals. Such tout contemporain representations of queer sexuality characterize a robust wave of films in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, inciting a new discourse on the condition of the marginalized traveler struggling to locate new forms of self and being—both at home and abroad.

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