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Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa book cover

1st Edition

Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited By Zahia Smail Salhi Copyright 2010
216 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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The images of women in chadors or burqas as contrasted with images of belly dancers which circulate today as representations of Muslim/Middle Eastern women do not fluctuate from the images propagated by Orientalist paintings and colonial photographs which also offer contrasting representations of the veiled thus secluded and the naked or semi-naked thus eroticised Muslim/Oriental woman. As well... Read more

1. Introduction: Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa Zahia Smail Salhi  2. Masculinity in Crisis: The Case of Palestinians in Israel Amalia Sa’ar and Taghreed Yahia-Younis  3. The Central Role of the Family Law in the Moroccan Feminist Movement Fatima Sadiqi   4. Steps to the Integration of Moroccan Women in Development Moha Ennaji  5. Gender Equality in Tunisia Amel Grami  6. Party Politics of the AKP (2002 – 2007) and the Predicaments of Women at the Intersection of the Westernist, Islamist and Feminist Discourses in Turkey Ayse Gunes Ayata and Fatma Tutuncu  7. Women and Media in Saudi Arabia: Rhetoric, Reductionism and Realities Naomi Sakr  8. Iraqi Women and Gender Relations: Redefining Difference  Nadje Al-Ali  9. The Discursive Occupation of Afghanistan Anila Daulatzai  10. Gender, Citizenship and Political Agency in Lebanon Lina Khatib  11. Gender and Violence in Algeria: Women’s Resistance against the Islamist Femicide  Zahia Smail Salhi

Biography

Zahia Smail Salhi is Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, The University of Manchester.

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