Decolonizing geography of the Middle East: utilizing feminist pedagogical strategies to reconstruct the classroom

Reflections on disciplinary perspectives on students as partners

“…There is a range of disciplinary characteristics that lend themselves to partnership work in this area. First, the collective disciplinary shame around geography's problematic past means that geographers are often keen to work towards creating a more socially just approach to studying the subject (Carter & Hollinsworth, 2017;Haji Molana, 2022). Second, decolonising approaches involve engaging with different knowledges (Tuhiwai Smith, 2002).…”

Beyond the decolonial? Decolonial and Muslim feminist perspectives

“…Anwar and Viqar, 2017;Cadogan, 2016;Mohammed and Sidaway, 2013). We have no wish to make reductive assumptions about Sidaway's identity, but if Sidaway had been 'a Muslim man with a prominent beard and tan skin'an embodied appearance away from which, as Molana (2022Molana ( : 1552 notes, some of her US students confess that their parents have moved seats on aeroplaneswe wonder whether he would have felt more of a need to show critical awareness of the relationships between his own embodied identity and Muslim geographies. This is not a personal point but a structural one.…”