Arab Feminisms
CONTEMPORARY ARAB SCHOLARSHIP IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Series ISBN 978 84885 207 5
The Contemporary Arab Scholarship in the Social Sciences (produced by I.B.Tauris in cooperation with the Centre for Arab Unity Studies) aims to introduce an English language audience to the most cutting-edge writings from the Arab world in the fields of politics, sociology, philosophy and history. Hitherto, the majority of social studies on the Arab world have been written by, and from the perspective of, non-Arabs. This series aims to remedy the situation by presenting authentic, indigenous points of view from key influential thinkers and intellectuals. The writers assembled in the series all highly distinguished experts in their areas of study tackle the most critical issues facing the Arab world today: Islam, modernity, development, the legacy of imperialism and colonialism, civil society, democracy and human rights. English-language readers are here given an unprecedented window on the vitality and distinctness of contemporary Arab intellectual debate in high-quality, eminently readable translations of the original works.
Democracy, Human Rights Law in Islamic Thought
Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
978 1 84511 749 8
Britain and Arab Unity:
A Documentary History from the Treaty of Versailles to the End of World War II
Younan Labib Rizk
978 1 84885 059 0
The State in Contemporary Islamic Thought:
A Historical Survey of the Major Muslim Political Thinkers of the Modern Era
Abdelilah Belkeziz
978 1 84885 062 0
Early Islamic Institutions:
Administration and Taxation from the Caliphate to the Umayyads and Abbsids
Abd al-Aziz Duri
978 1 84885 060 6
The Formation of Arab Reason:
Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World
Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
978 1 84885 061 3
Islamic Land TaxAl-Kharj:
From the Islamic Conquests to the Abbsid Period
Ghaida Khazna Katbi
978 1 84885 063 7
The papers in this book, originally written in Arabic, were translated into English by Ellen Khoury. English language editing by Jean Said Makdisi.
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Copyright 2014 Jean Said Makdisi, Noha Bayoumi and Rafif Rida Sidawi
(The Lebanese Association of Women Researchers)
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Contemporary Arab Scholarship in the Social Sciences, Vol. 7
ISBN: 978 1 78076 672 0
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Contents
Editorial Committee: Jean Said Makdisi, Noha Bayoumi, Rafif Rida Sidawi
Mervat Hatem
Hoda Elsadda
Najla Hamadeh
Nahawand el Kadri Issa
Zeina Zaatari
Watfa Hamadi
Jean Said Makdisi
Noha Bayoumi
Fawzia Abdullah Abu-Khaled
Hatoon Ajwad el-Fassi
Suad Zayed al-Oraimi
Kaltham al-Ghanim
Joan W. Scott
Nivedita Menon
Islah Jad
Eileen Kuttab
Amal Amireh
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Haifa Zangana
Elaheh Rostami-Povey
Mari Oka
Anice al Amine Merhi
Amira Yousef al-Badri
Dina Georgis
Dalia Said Mustafa
Zainah Anwar
Mai al-Nakib
Hoda El-Saadi
Amal Grami
Omaima Abou-Bakr
Marnia Lazreg
Husn Abboud
Elora Shehabuddin
Shahrzad Mojab
Laleh Khalili
Vron Ware
Kumkum Sangari
Hazel Carby
Deniz Kandiyoti
Acknowledgements
The editors of this book wish to thank the following institutions and individuals for their support throughout the several years that this project has been in preparation.
First of all for their financial support, we wish to thank:
the Global Fund for Women (the United States);
Sephis (the Netherlands);
Hivos (the Netherlands);
the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO, Beirut;
the UNESCO Regional Office, Beirut;
the National Council for Scientific Research;
the Center for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) in the UK; and
JaCMES (the Japanese Center for Middle East Studies).
For its indispensable logistical and financial support, we would like to thank the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature at the American University of Beirut.
We thank our partners in the conceptualization and preparation of the project:
the Women and Memory Forum, Cairo, Egypt;
the Center for Womens Studies at Bir Zeit University in occupied Palestine; and
the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature at the American University of Beirut.
We would particularly like to thank the following individuals whose insights, help and support were invaluable to the success of this venture:
Hoda el Sadda, Manchester University and CASAW;
Islah Jad, Bir Zeit University;
Maher Jarrar, director of the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature at the American University of Beirut;
Marina de Regt, Sephis;
Shamil Jeppie, Sephis; and
Zeina Zaatari, the Global Fund for Women.
We also wish to thank Ms Aida Abdel Samad and Ms Faten Nisr for their immeasurable logistical and practical assistance, as well as Ms Farah Aridi, Dr Jarrars able assistant, and her group of student helpers. The young women of the Feminist Collective were of great help in spreading the word on our conference, and offering their enthusiastic support for all our efforts.
Dr Khayreddin Hasseeb, Director of the Centre for Arab Unity Studies, committed himself early on to support this project.
Finally, a word of thanks to our colleagues in the Lebanese Association of Women Researchers for their enthusiastic support for our work.
