Events – CGS Seminar – GENDER, FUNDAMENTALISM AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

By Akanksha Mehta|April 22, 2016|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

The SOAS Centre for Gender Studies and University of East London’s Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB)

are pleased to announce the following seminar:

 

GENDER, FUNDAMENTALISM AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

 

Saturday 30^th April 2016, 2 – 5pm

 

SOAS Brunei Gallery Building

(Room B102)

 

Speakers:

Nazand Begikhani

Media, Gender & Honour: The Cyber Representation of Women in Iraqi Kurdistan

Rouba Mhaissan

Gender and Religious Extremism in Syria: 

Women lead an ongoing fight to freedom

 

Zahra Ali

Women’s political activism in post-invasion Iraq:

Muslim feminists, Islamist women and the women between

 

Nadje Al-Ali

Beyond ISIS: Gender-based violence, militarism and authoritarianism