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THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE ARAB WORLD |
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Conference in cooperation with the Bruno Kreisky Forum for international dialogue, Vienna, and the Karl Kahane Foundation, Celerina
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DisORIENTation
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The Women’s Movement and Civil Society in the Arab World
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Friday, April 25, 2003, 2-10 p.m.
Saturday, April 26, 2003, 1:30-7 p.m.
English and German with translation
Free admission
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Prinzessin Basma Bint Talal of Jordan (Chair of the Jordanian National Commission for Women, Amman), who works actively toward increasing women’s participation in social and political processes, will open the conference The Women’s Movement and Civil Society in the Arab World on April 25 in the House of World Cultures.
The conference focuses on Arab women’s struggle to formulate and implement their interests and rights and their endeavour to claim their own history. The discussion will address key content and strategies of Arab women’s groups, the presence of women in the Arab media, secular and Islamic varieties of feminism and the significance of a new gender order in the Arab world.
The invited speakers are women from Arab countries who are actively committed to an expansion of women’s rights and their practical implementation – be it through projects, women’s organizations, or as scholars.
The speakers and discussion participants will be: Aicha Belarbi (Morocco’s ambassador to the EU, Brussels) Sumaya Farhat-Naser (writer and peace activist from Palestine), Bahiya Al-Jishi (Higher Council for Women, Bahrain), the writer Miral Al-Tahawi (Cairo), Iqbal Baraka (editor-in-chief of the women’s magazine “Hawa“/“Eva“, Cairo), Rabéa Naciri (Collectif Maghreb Egalité 95, Rabat), Omeima Abou-Bakr (University of Cairo, Women and Memory Forum, Cairo) and many others.
For further information and complete press materials please contact:
Petra Stegmann, telephone: 030-397 87 291, fax: 030 - 397 87 159, e-mail: stegmann@hkw.de
The House of World Cultures, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Please note: the writer Miral Al-Tahawi will read from her novel The Blue Aubergine on Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 7 p.m. in the House of World Cultures. The novel tells of the rebellion of a young woman from a Bedouin family who aspires to an independent life untouched by left-wing, fundamentalist and liberal ideologies. Arab and German with translation. Admission: 4 Euro, reduced 2.50 Euro
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Complete Program
The Women’s Movement and Civil Society in the Arab World
Friday, April 25
2-3:30 p.m.
The Dynamics of the Women’s Movement in the Arab World Opening Podium
Keynote: H.R.H. Princess Basma Bint Talal of Jordan (Chair of the Jordanian National Commission for Women, Amman)
Statement:
Aicha Belarbi (Moroccan ambassador to the EU, Brussels)
Moderator: Parto Teherani-Krönner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
3:30-6:30 p.m.
Key Content and Strategies of Arab Women’s Groups
The Past Decade: A Comparison of Women’s Movements in Different Arab Countries
Empowerment: the Struggle for Women’s Rights
Asma Khader (International Sisterhood (SIGI), Amman)
Political Participation in Patriarchal Societies
Rabéa Naciri (Collectif Maghreb Egalité 95, Rabat)
Sumaya Farhat–Naser (writer and peace activist from Palestine)
Bahiya Al-Jishi (Higher Council for Women, Bahrain)
Moderator: Bettina Dennerlein (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
8-10 p.m.
Secular and Islamic Feminism Podium discussion
Nadje Al-Ali (social anthropologist, University of Exeter, GB)
Hadeel Qazzaz, (social scientist, Heinrich Böll–Stiftung, Ramallah)
Omeima Abou Bakr (University of Cairo, Women and Memory Forum, Kairo)
Miral Al-Tahawi (writer, lecturer at the University of Cairo, Cairo)
Moderator: Katajun Amirpur (Islamic scholar, journalist, Cologne)
Saturday, April 26
1:30- 4 p.m.
Women’s Struggle for the Public Sphere
Women in the Arab Media: a Success Story
Iqbal Baraka (editor-in-chief of the women’s magazine “Hawa“/“Eva“, Cairo)
New Social Spaces Created by Internet and Satellite-TV
Musa Shteiwi (Professor of Sociology, University of Jordan, Amman)
Layla Chaouni (publisher of “Le Fennec“, Casablanca)
Sumaya Farhat–Naser (writer and peace activist from Palestine)
Moderator: Ibtesam Al-Atiyat (political scientist, Amman/presently at the Freie Universität, Berlin)
4:30-7 p.m.
Gender Difference, Pluralism and Democracy
The Significance of a New Gender Order in the Arab World Podium discussion
Hadeel Qazzaz (social scientist, Heinrich Böll-Stiftung, Ramallah)
Azza Karam (World Conference on Religion and Peace, New York/Cairo)
Rabéa Naciri (Collectif Maghreb Egalité 95, Professor of Geography, Rabat)
Musa Shteiwi (Professor of Sociology, University of Jordan, Amman)
Moderation: Sonja Hegasy (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin) _______________________________________________
Petra Stegmann
Kommunikation
Haus der Kulturen der Welt / House of World Cultures
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
Telephone: ++49-30-397 87-291
Fax: ++49-30-397 87-159
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