Gender and Revolutions: Rethinking the "Women Question" in the Modern Middle East

Theme for MES4520 spring 2019

Course Description

Female reformers and revolutionaries were at the forefront of many of the 20th and early 21st centuries’ historic socio-political and religious movements across the Global South. In the MENA region, as members of diverse classes, families, and ethnic communities, many worked within the tenets of Islam in multiple ways to construct religious identity and work towards achieving and demanding c