Women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa: citizenship and justice

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (06) ◽  
pp. 43-3658-43-3658
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights

Bedouin Poetry in Personal and Public Spheres

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Hailey Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Throughout the Middle East and North Africa, Bedouin herders continue to practice their oral tradition of Nabati poetry. This chapter examines the ways that Nabati poetry is produced and shared across social media platforms. The chapter focuses on a Nabati poet, Hissa Hilal, who performed her work on the Million’s Poet reality TV competition show. Her work sparked new debates about the work of women Nabati poets as well as Bedouin women’s rights throughout the region.

scholarly journals Reforming Family Laws to Promote Progress in the Middle East and North Africa

1970 ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
Valentine M. Moghadam ◽  
Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Policy Debates

The issue of women's rights is gaining prominence in policy debates, as pressure for democracy in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) continues to grow.Area experts contend that a larger role for women in the economy and society is vital to the region's progress. But women in MENA still face gender discrimination that prevents them from reaching their potential, despite their impressive gains in education and health.

scholarly journals Claiming and Reclaiming the Digital World as a Public Space: Experiences and insights from feminists in the Middle East and North Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca El Asmar
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Young Women ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Feminist Organizations ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Civic Space ◽  
Digital Spaces

This paper seeks to highlight the experiences and aspirations of young women and feminist activists in the MENA region around digital spaces, safety and rights. It explores individual women’s experiences engaging with the digital world, the opportunities and challenges that women’s rights and feminist organizations find in these platforms, and the digital world as a space of resistance, despite restrictions on civic space. Drawing on interviews with feminist activists from the region, the paper sheds light on women’s online experiences and related offline risks, illustrates patterns and behaviours that prevailed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Women’s Rights in the Middle East: A Longitudinal Study of Kuwait

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Tétreault ◽  
Katherine Meyer ◽  
Helen Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights

scholarly journals The Rights of Muslim Women in the Middle East: A Pathfinder

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren E. Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Advanced Knowledge

This annotated pathfinder is designed to serve as a guide for those who wish to learn about the legal and social situation of Muslim women in the region of the Middle East, but who do not have a great amount of advanced knowledge concerning the topic. It is meant to serve as an organized starting point from which to begin further research, and to provide a context for the current status of Muslim women's rights in the Middle East. A wide variety of types of materials are included, from books to reports to treaties.

DIALECTS OF WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUITRY OF THEARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2005

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Abu-Lughod
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
The Past ◽  
Universal Human Rights

The ethical and political dilemmas posed by the construction and international circulation of discourses on women's rights in the Middle East are formidable. The plight of “Muslim women” has long occupied a special place in the Western political imagination, whether in colonial officials' dedication to saving them from barbaric practices or development projects devoted to empowering them. In the past fifteen years or so, through a series of international conferences and the efforts of feminist activists, women's rights have come to be framed successfully as universal human rights. Building on the U.N. conferences on women that started in 1975 and led to other initiatives, the appropriate arena of women's rights work has been redefined from the national to the international.

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