Abstract: This seminar maps out the landscape of women’s activism in the Arab world today, highlighting the plurality of tendencies and movements. It sheds light on domains of women’s struggle including representation in political institutions, legal equality and personal status laws, labor and environmental rights, survival and resistance in the face of occupation, and violence against women. The aim is to complicate notions of women’s activism and gender equality, accounting for differences within and between Arab countries, while identifying some region-wide patterns.
| 2025/11/08 | ||
| 15:00 - 15:10 | Introduction | Dr. Emi Goto(ILCAA, TUFS) |
| 15:10 - 16:10 | After the Revolutions: Charting Women’s Activism in the Arab World | Dr. Layla Saleh(Director of Research at Demos-Tunisia Democratic Sustainability Forum) |
| 16:10 - 16:50 | Questions and Answers | |
| 16:50 - 17:00 | Closing | |
Lecturer:
Dr. Layla Saleh is a political scientist specializing in politics and International Relations (IR) of the Arab region. Her focus is on 'politics from below’ as it relates to protest, revolution, civic activism, democratization, and gender politics. Her books include Revolution and Democracy in Tunisia (Oxford UP, 2024, co-authored with Larbi Sadiki) and US Hard Power in the Arab World: Resistance, the Syrian Uprising, and the War on Terror (Routledge, 2017).