Gender, Politics, and Scholarship: Feminist Interventions in MENA Studies

Join Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) and the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) for a roundtable on the past, present and future of feminist approaches to the field of Middle East and North African Studies. This roundtable brings together four scholars who have played pivotal roles in shaping the multidisciplinary field of Women’s and Gender Studies within studies of the region: Mounira Charrad, Suad Joseph, Deniz Kandiyoti and Judith Tucker. Together, they’ll reflect on the development of the field over five decades: the political realities and contexts that shaped their work, the challenges encountered from within the academy, how the field sits within global and western feminist studies and movements and, finally, where the field is today and where it might hope to go. Moderated by Nadje Al-Ali and Maya Mikdashi.

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