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...Fahd Ali Raza Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS  99 BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS  Reasons for the Lack of Women’s Participation...

..., or change the rules in sexual and family life in order to address a range of problems and challenges, including lack of economic and other resources, political and citizenship exclusions, or intimate violence. What are the implications of relying on states as the main arbiters of rights and protections...

... treatment are mediated by women’s socioeconomic position within Iranian society. Many women lack economic access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) technologies and fear the moral consequences of gamete donation. Thus, the benefits of the Iranian ART revolution are mixed: although many Iranian women have been...

... religious practices. Factors such as a newfound access to modern education, lack of time, fatigue with politics, and ‘Amr Khaled’s unique ability to reconcile tensions between tradition and modernity have contributed to his popularity among this group of Yemeni women. Sophia Pandya is Assistant...

..., or husbands. It also shows that some women were subjected to violence during childhood and adolescence. The study points to the lack of legislation and official organizations to protect women from violence and suggests ways and means of dealing with the problem in Qatari society. Dr. Kaltham al-Ghanim...

...Nina Abdul Razzak Faculty at Bahrain Teachers’ College were concerned that their students lacked the ability to succeed in educational contexts designed to promote deep, or active, student-centered, learning. Deep learning is an educational approach that involves critical analysis, the linking...

... ethnographic field materials (2003–2010) and interactions on social networking sites. A lack of cohesion among and between these groups highlights the absence of significant shared objectives that serve individuals in an effort toward solidarity, while simultaneously suggesting that the subject position...

... in the mid-nineteenth century. Efforts to control the disease were complicated by a lack of effective treatment until the 1910s, inadequate investment in health care, disparate agendas at the provincial and imperial level, and resistance to treatment by men who feared loss of status and jobs. Transmission...

...Afsane Rezaei Abstract This article explores domestic religious practices of Iranian Muslim women in Los Angeles. In the diasporic context, Iranian women’s voluntary engagement in vernacular Islamic practices is often associated with an unreflexive pursuit of religion and lack of agency...

... instances of feminist transnational collaboration and global mobilization for women’s rights, whereas #MyStealthyFreedom and the lack of coverage of the Afghan women’s right uprising since Taliban 2.0 fall into the paradigm of imperial feminism. References Abu-Lughod Lila . 2002 . “ Do Muslim...

...Figure 4. Lacking Brains and Religion ...

... (2007, 3) on MENA businesswomen claims, “Women business owners surveyed in MENA are well ahead of their counterparts in Western Europe and North America with respect to the size of their firms and many report substantial levels of revenue.” These contrasts implicate a lack of organized data...

... of their families are the abusers. The other problem, of course, is that the law does not effectively deal with abusers and does not provide sufficient protection for the abused. Regarding consumerism, a large portion of the female population is homebound due to a lack of opportunities and resources...

... Western feminism lacks accurate information on the living conditions of non-Western communities and their cultures and religions, Western societies generally homogenize different migrant groups according to their geographies and geography-related culture and tradition. Indeed, this study exposes how...

... husband describes how Al-Habash travels extensively to speak at Islamic conferences and seminars. She too lacks any official recognition since the Islamic Leaders Foundation in Syria is limited to male participation. With the exception of Saleh, the film focuses on the women’s pri...

... needing help and enlightenment. Their accounts, lacking anthropological nuances, failed to grasp the differences between local women’s “perceptions, decisions, and behaviors” in making reproductive choices (Obermeyer 2000b : 174). Their generalizing descriptions of the locals served to represent...

.... JIHAD MAKHOUL & MARY GHANEM ./ 59 Th e fi ndings point to the interplay of wider structural forces, such as confl ict and the eff ects of war, unaff ordable rates of rent, the lack of full-time employment, and the absence of job-related social security nets, that have prompted families...

... a military occupation with soldiers and guns everywhere, but also because of the cumbersome Israeli bureaucracy and my lack of Hebrew-language skills. However, I was also worried about life in my ancestral village, surrounded by curious relatives wondering what inspired “the American,” as they called me...

... of religion, family, friendship, honor, modesty, and lack of political par- ticipation. Although the project emanates from worthy questions about wom- en’s political agency and self-identification, Droeber ultimately fails to explain the very social transformations she intended to explore...