Sumários

The "Arab Spring(s)" and Ongoing Challenges

19 Março 2024, 18:00 • Giulia Daniele

- Social movements: Meanings, factors and questions

- Problematising the Arab Spring(s)
- Workers and their struggles: Uprisings from the periphery
- Women as key players in the Arab Spring(s)
- The Arab Spring(s) in Palestine and Israel
- The Arab Spring(s) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
- The "Israeli Spring"
- Thirteen years later

Iran on a knife edge: Teheran's foreign policy since 1979

12 Março 2024, 18:00 • Giulia Daniele

Iranian foreign policy from 1979 to the present

Gender and Women's Studies in the Middle East and North Africa region

5 Março 2024, 18:00 • Giulia Daniele

- Fourth waves of feminism(s)

- Nationalism: What's beyond?
- The Palestinian case-study
- Wars and conflicts: Women's double burden
- Orientalism as a gendered discourse
- Islam and women/gender: Recognising its complexity 
- Veil: Forms, choices and perspectives
- Islamic feminism(s)
- Women's organisations and states
- Transnational feminism: Transcending borders and identities 

Islam and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

27 Fevereiro 2024, 18:00 • Giulia Daniele

- The beginning: The Muslim Brotherhood

- Main concerns, goals and challenges of the Muslim Brotherhood
- From the 1970s onwards
- Problematising the definition of "Political Islam" and "Islamism"
- Is Political Islam still capable of continued growth?
- Islam and democracy
- Islam and political violence
- The current panorama of the "Islamist revival"

Introduction to the region: Meaning, approaches and perspectives

20 Fevereiro 2024, 18:00 • Giulia Daniele

- programme of the course

- general overview of the region and maps
- overcoming clichés
- Islam and beyond
- how can we describe the region?
- approaching the analysis of the region