Women, Islamism and resistance in the Arab world

Location
Room G51, European Research Insitute, University of Birmingham
Dates
Monday 27 June 2011 (11:00-16:30)
Contact

For attendance and registration, contact Helen Ingram at h.ingram@bham.ac.uk.

For other enquiries, contact the conference organiser Dr Haifaa Jawad at h.a.jawad@bham.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)121 415 8337.

Registration cost: £10 (with buffet lunch), £5 (without lunch).

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The relationship between Women and Islamism in the Arab world is very complicated, some believe that the emergence of Islamism in recent decades has been bad form women’s rights.

Others disagree and insist that Islamism has empowered women and allowed them to play broad public role and resist injustices prevailing in their respective societies, citing the role played and continues to be played by women in the democratic changes that has swapped the Arab world.

A group of respected specialists from London, Cambridge, Birmingham, and Lancaster are debating these issues and discussing the current discourse between women, Islamism and female forms of resistance in the Arab world at a one-day conference to be held at the department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham on 27 of June 2011. All are welcome.

Programme

11.00-11:10 Introduction to the conference

11:15-11:45 Islam: doctrine and praxis in the contemporary world

  • Professor George Joffe, Cambridge University

11:45-12:15: Islamist discourse on Gender and Feminism in Egypt.

  • Dr Shuruq Naguib, Lancaster University

12.00 - 12:30 Coffee break

12:30 - 13.00 Liberation or exploitation? Palestinian women and the right to resist. 

  • Dr Maria Holt, Westminster University  

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 Islamist women in the Middle East: connections and implications for Muslim women’s activisms in the West

  • Dr Laura McDonald, University of Birmingham

14:30 - 15.00: From Liberation to Resistance, Women in Iraq.

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break 

15:30 - 16:00 Post- Islamist revivalism, Syrian women and the Da’wa movement.

  • Elisabeth Buergener, University of Birmingham

16.00 - 16:30 Panel discussion and conclusion