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... organizations. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2025 LGBTI+ network analysis identity collective action social movement organizations In Turkey, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and intersexual (LGBTI+) individuals are exposed...

... the early 1980s onward, the Islamic Movement focused on three areas: social service, religious da‘wa (Islamic proselytizing among Muslims), and political organizing. In the area of social action, the Movement first targeted lower income families with financial and -ma terial assistance...

... of women? How did they resonate with women? • What opportunities and challenges do these master frames pose for the women’s movement and its ability to organize and mobilize more broadly in society? I argue that social movement frames that explained their grievances and inspired people...

... to Syrian workers. SLAS volunteers understood their efforts as mitigating the precarities imposed on Syrian workers by the global capitalist labor system. Theirs was both a women’s organization and a proletarian movement led by Syrian women. Drawing from SLAS records and the Syrian American press...

... “programs, causes, and values that some SMOs [social movement organizations] promote” that “may not resonate with, and on occasion, may even appear antithetical to, conventional lifestyles or rituals and extant imperative frames,” what may be required is that “new values…be planted...

... in the book as “to introduce the scope and scale of the revolutionary Kurdish women’s liberation movement’s political vision and practice from its own viewpoint, with the hope of building bridges between struggles for liberation” (xix). Engaged with ideas and practices of other system-critical social...

... by the global #MeToo movement, they built on its feminist discourse against sexual violence and its model of organization, relying heavily on social media as a tool for action to revitalize feminist activism in authoritarian Egypt (Khorshid 2021 ). Nadeen Ashraf, a student at the American University...

...Evren Savcı These are not easy dynamics to disentangle, nor are they easy questions to answer. Atshan’s incisive study is an important intervention and a valuable opening of a debate on the role that the “empire of critique” continues to play in social justice organizing. Queer Palestine...

... at a work- Tshop we organized for the Sixth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, which took place from 16‒20 March 2005, in Monte- catini, Italy. The purpose of the workshop was to examine the proposition that the public sphere in a number of MENA countries is changing and civil...

... “authentic” culture.18 Central to this agenda of creating an Is- lamic state and a Muslim Umma (nation) are Muslim women and the Mus- lim family. Islamist women are both organizers within the movement and socializers within the family. In the latter role, women in general are seen...

... forms of repression). “Th us social movements,” such as Resala-like organiza- tions, “become the primary focus for serious analytical engagements with political agency in society” (Mohan and Stokke 2000, 248). Most important, the popularity of Resala and other youth organizations...

... the radicalization of Islamist youth and organizations. Our research reveals that religious Kurdish women have not fixed positionalities but fluid and intersectional approaches to their social and political surroundings, challenging both the Islamist government and the largely secular Kurdish political movement...

... the world, re-linking these movements with universal struggles for social justice. JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 7, No. 3 (Fall 2011) © 2011 98 GHASSAN MAKAREM  mn...

... and support to their causes. International attention and support can provide much-needed resources and political and cultural capital to local human rights organizations struggling to enact social change and justice. Transnational feminist movements such as #MahsaAmini and #MyRedLine that are genuinely...

... organization established in the 1990s. With tens of thousands of members and branches throughout Cairo, al-Hilal aims to promote Islam as a way of living both in the lives of its members and through social activism in the community at large. Run primarily by educated middle-class women, its activities...

... of modernity and grand historical narratives. We also need to further explore in our national scenes alternative histories and their implications for marginalized groups and indigenous social movements. Limited indigenous analysis on these matters helps explain the confusion and rigid opinions that often reign...

..., and Gina Neff 2005  How Do Organizations Matter? Mobilization and Support for   Participants at Five Globalization Protests. Social Problems 52:1 (Febru-   ary): 102 – 21. Friedman, Debra, and Doug McAdam 1992  Collective Identity and Activism. In Frontiers in Social Movement...

..., they support survivors of violence and contribute to a strong women’s movement. These NGOs organize seminars and workshops about associational work, and they lobby, network, and demand social change. They may partner with specific ministries to implement educational projects. They present plays...

..., and development policies. These are the same organizations that document human-rights violations and provide legal assistance to their victims (Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights 2016 ). In 2019, eight years after the start of the case, its implications threaten the survival of the feminist movement...

... ” (in Persian). May 21. http://www.bbc.com/persian/iran/2015/05/150521_l45_molaverdi_gender_justice_women . Benford Robert D. , and Snow David A. 2000 . “ Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment .” Annual Review of Sociology 26 : 611 – 39 . Ben Shitrit...