Please find details below for the following CMRB/Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS) event: Women & The Arab Spring.
It takes place 8th December, 2-5pm at SOAS’ Khalili Theatre.
All details in the attached poster and are reproduced below:
CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS) would like to invite you to a symposium on the question of
WOMEN AND THE ARAB SPRING
Which will take place at the Khalili Lecture Theatre in SOAS (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/)
Saturday 8th December, 2-5pm
Confirmed Speakers:
Prof. Nadje Al Ali, SOAS
Layla El-Wafi, Women4Lybia
Afaf Jabiri, SOAS
Dr. Mariz Tadros, IDS
Prof. Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck
Chair: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, UEL
Discussant: Dr. Ruba Salih, SOAS
The event is free but places are limited so please RSVP to Jamie Hakim, CMRB administrator (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk).
Dr. Ruba Salih, Director of the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS http://www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies/
Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB UEL Director
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/
Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS
Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her main research interests revolve around gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle East; transnational migration and diaspora moblization; war, conflict and reconstruction. Nadje is a feminist and peace activist–academic who co-founded Act Together: Women’s Action for Iraq in the late 90s. During this period she also started to get involved with Women in Black UK. Nadje is currently President of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS). And a member of the Feminist Review Collective.
Layla El-Wafi, Women4Lybia
Layla El-Wafi is an English qualified lawyer who also has experience working with international and local NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as in New York and London. She is of mixed Libyan and Egyptian heritage, speaks Arabic and regularly travels across the MENA region. Layla is a founding member of Women4Libya which is a priority initiative of the Libyan Civil Society Organisation (LSCO).
Afaf Jabiri, SOAS
Afaf Jabiri is a leading women’s rights activist in Jordan and across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Serving as a board member of the Jordanian Women’s Union (JWU) since the 1990s, she worked to establish its hotline and shelter for women survivors of violence, a first in Jordan and the Arab region. In the last four years, Ms. Jabiri served as an advisor on gender-based violence and women’s rights for various UN agencies. Ms. Jabiri is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Gender Studies/School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Dr. Mariz Tadros, IDS
Mariz Tadros is an Egyptian political scientist and research Fellow with the Participation, Power and Social Change team at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She is the author of Democracy redefined or confined?: The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt (Routledge 2012). Her contributions have featured in The Guardian, openDemocracy and The Middle East Report. Prior to joining IDS, she worked as an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, and has almost ten years of experience as a journalist working for Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper in Egypt.
Prof. Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck
Sami Zubaida is emeritus professor of politics and sociology at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of Beyond Islam: A New Understanding of the Middle East (IB Tauris, 2011). His earlier books include Islam, the People and the State: Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East (IB Tauris, 1993); A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (IB Tauris, 2001); and Law and Power in the Islamic World (IB Tauris, 2005).
To download the poster in PDF format, click here: [Women and the Arab Spring].
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