...Bettina Dennerlein This paper focuses on competing appropriations of international women’s rights standards in the framework of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission (ERC) and its follow-up projects. I argue that, even if the ERC’s gender approach has been introduced as part...

... and Reparations On January 7, 2004, King Muhammad VI formed the Equity and Rec- onciliation Commission, (ERC), a Moroccan truth commission charged with collecting testimony, determining reparation, and uncovering the truths about the decades of repression. The commission was headed by Driss Benzekri...

... and counterrevolutionary forces over gender equality. The Age of Counter-revolution provides valuable insights for scholars interested in social and political studies, specifically in the Middle East and North Africa. This publication is part of the ERC StG 2019 TAKHAYYUL Project (853230). ...

... memories are selectively adopted and adapted in the framework of constructing meaningful personal accounts. In this issue, Bettina Dennerlein looks at how the gender approach adopted by the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission (ERC) established in 2004 is geared toward earlier women’s...

... example of a trend that can be observed across some Muslim communities with their own ʿerfan Sufi heritage in Europe and beyond. This publication is part of the ERC StG 2019 TAKHAYYUL Project (853230). ...

.... Next-generation authors, fi rst and fore- most Farrukhzād, proclaimed publicly what their predecessors had dared to say only privately, if at all. Th is new audacity elicited fi erce responses. Not only Muslim critics but “[t]he modernized, educated elite, who claimed to support change...

.... In the issue of A Magazine curated by Takahashi, Terry Jones, the British comedian, political satirist, and fi erce ELLEN McLARNEY  17 critic of the war in Iraq, interviews the Japanese designer. He asks, “A lot of people thought that [the last...

... erce Pathans and Sikhs” ( 2002, 254). 52  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES REFERENCES Ahmed, Leila 1992 Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press. Allen, Roger...

... the failures of a society that lacked even minimal protection for its weakest members, or fi ercely challenging op- pressive social norms. One article discussed the attempted suicide of a young woman named Zehra who had spent her whole life working as a servant in one household aft er another, subject...

... system, in a resource-poor country, Lebanese physicians are steeped in fi erce competition for patients and are well experienced with patients who have diffi culty paying for their services. 7. Th is was true of all the men in the Lebanese study, including non-Palestinians...

... fi erce, linked to “the struggles for political independence and especially the rejection of increasing American infl u- ence” (201), even though, as Abdelrahman (2004, 182–3) shows in her later study based on a survey of 60 Egyptian NGOs, foreign funding is highly sought aft er...