Feminisms and Gender Equality in the MENA Region

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE002 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC32 Women, Gender and Society (host committee)

Language: English

This session will highlight gender equality and MENA feminist responses, localizing the global and globalizing the local as the session looks into inequalities, struggles and organization in Morocco,Tunisia, Iran and Lebanon.
Session Organizer:
Solange SIMOES, Eastern Michigan University, USA
Oral Presentations
Beyond Gender: Tunisia Feminism As a Political and Social Opposition Force
Amel HAMMAMI CZAJKOWSKA, European Interdisciplinary Department, College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw)., Poland
Feminism in the MENA: Unraveling Local and Global Dimensions
Nazanin SHAHROKNI, The London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Beyond Ngoization of Women’s Rights: Moroccan Farmers and the Politics of Land Tenure Reforms
Souad EDDOUADA, University of Ibn Tofail, Kenitra, Morocco
The Influence of Inequality across the Life Course: Gender and Health in Lebanon
Kristine AJROUCH, University of Michigan, USA
The Family As a Political Tool: Divergent Post-Islamist Women’s Rights Discourses in Morocco
Johanna KETTENBACH, University of Oslo, Norway
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