Gendered Mobilization, Body Politics, and Change in the Middle East
Time: April 11, 2018, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Location: 220 Eggers
Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS University of London)
Al-Ali addresses the gendering of political mobilization in the Middle East. Against a brief historical background, Al-Ali focuses on recent political developments and struggles for change, particularly in relation to Iraq, Egypt, Turkey and the Kurdish region. Addressing wider contestations and challenges to the existing political systems and gender regimes, she highlights the significance of body politics arguing for the centrality of body politics and gendered mobilization for struggles against authoritarianism, militarism and sectarianism.
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BIOGRAPHY: Al-Ali is Professor and Chair of the Centre of Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: the Egyptian Women’s Movement (2000), Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007) and more recently with Nicola Pratt What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation in Iraq (2009). She has also edited Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives (2009) with Nicola Pratt, and along collection with Deborah Pratt We are Iraqis: Aesthetics and politics in a Time of War (2012).
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- Women's & Gender Studies
- Middle Eastern Studies
- History
- English
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