Women’s Studies and transformative politics: an Arab-Muslim perspective

Ibrahim, Hanan

doi:10.18538/lthe.v9.n2.99

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“…The field of GWS faces significant sociocultural challenges that influence the integration of women’s studies programs into mainstream curricula in the Gulf region (Ibrahim 2012). Traditionally, the overall educational policies of the Arab Gulf have emphasized the need to reinforce the political status quo, promote religious values in society, and preserve traditional gender roles in the family.…”

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Mapping Gender and Women’s Studies in the Arab Gulf: How to Move It from the Margins?

Alsahi

2023

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Over the past few decades, the Arab Gulf has witnessed tremendous socioeconomic and structural transformation coupled with major reforms to modernize the higher education sector. These reforms have focused on establishing partnerships with foreign universities and/or hosting international branch campuses to promote diverse, liberal, and high-quality educational programs. While these far-reaching reforms have undeniably led to a dramatic increase in the number of academic institutions (Baghdady 2017), these institutions have mostly reproduced traditional educational structures and paradigms, with little contribution to the advancement of more liberal and progressive ideas and/or areas of study, namely, gender and women’s studies (GWS).

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Section: Challenges Facing Gender and Women’s Studies In The Gulf Regionmentioning

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Mapping Gender and Women’s Studies in the Arab Gulf: How to Move It from the Margins?

Alsahi

2023

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“…Institutionalizing GWS in the MENA region is fraught with additional challenges. Academic institutions in the MENA are highly gendered, they are unwelcoming to women professors (Karam and Afiouni 2014;Sabour 1996), and they mirror the prevailing sociopolitical norms, with reluctance to embrace gendernonconformist ideas (Ibrahim 2012). On the one hand, the societal and political backlash against the concept of gender and/or feminism sabotages efforts to institutionalize GWS and/or to promote feminist knowledge at both the individual and institutional levels (Alsahi 2018).…”

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Perilous Pedagogy: Teaching Gender and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

2023

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Teaching gender politics has been an increasingly contentious topic in established democracies, with instructors encountering a myriad of pedagogical, institutional, and ideological challenges (Butler 2021; Evans 2019).1 Challenges to teaching gender politics are exacerbated in nondemocratic contexts, where academic institutions operate under close regime scrutiny and surveillance, and where patterns of autocratic power structures are prevalent in society and often reproduced in the classroom. While extant studies have shed important light on some of the trends and issues associated with teaching gender politics in established democracies (Bayes 2012; Han and Heldman 2019; Lyle-Gonga 2013), our knowledge remains limited when it comes to teaching gender and politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in Western institutions as well as within the MENA region. Understanding these challenges is particularly relevant given that the MENA region is diverse and has long been “othered,” “racialized,” and “orientalized” in Western discourse (Ahmed 1992; Said 1978), with direct implications for teaching gender and politics of the Middle East in local academic institutions as well as in the West.

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Approaches to reading intercultural communication in the Qur’an and the politics of interpretation

Ibrahim

2014

Critical Research on Religion

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The Qur'an depicts fluctuating relations between Muslims and non-Muslims. While at times such relations can be conciliatory and harmonious, at others they are inimical, uneasy, or distant. Still, the Qur'an acknowledges the necessary ontological reality of the human difference. This is evidenced in many verses. Thus, I will argue that an ''attentive'' and ''worldly'' reading of the Qur'an is crucial to curb misunderstanding of the way 'difference' is perceived in Islam by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. A close reading is primarily a multiple form of communication. It is needed to resist the networked systems of power and control dominated by images and mass media in the Arab world and Western. It is exceptionally important to free the interpretation of Qur'an from the grip of Muslim and non-Muslim extremists and Islamophobes who read some of its verses as evidence of essentialized enmity harbored by Muslims towards all non-Muslims.

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Women’s Studies and transformative politics: an Arab-Muslim perspective

Cited by 3 publications

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Mapping Gender and Women’s Studies in the Arab Gulf: How to Move It from the Margins?

Mapping Gender and Women’s Studies in the Arab Gulf: How to Move It from the Margins?

Perilous Pedagogy: Teaching Gender and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

Approaches to reading intercultural communication in the Qur’an and the politics of interpretation

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