Events
Gendering the Arab Spring
Location: Wolfson Research Exchange, The Library
A workshop organized by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender
How significant is gender in understanding the Arab spring? What do Arab women hope to achieve from their participation in the uprisings? What is the future of women’s rights and gender relations in the aftermath of dictatorship?
Speakers include:
- Fadia Faqir, independent academic, author, Writing Fellow, Durham: Is the Arab Spring Leaving Women in the Cold?
- Nadje Al-Ali, Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS: Women Resisting the New Dictatorship in Iraq
- Dalia S Mostafa, Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Literature, Manchester: Women, Culture, and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
- Nicola Pratt, Associate Professor, International Politics of the Middle East, 糖心TV: The Gendered Politics of Neoliberal Authoritarianism
Please email K.Throsby@warwick.ac.uk to register.