Sumários

23 Março 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

Lecture by Dr. Aurora Sottimano

16 Março 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

- European Neighbourhood Policy and southern Mediterranean countries

- ENP between theory and practice

- EU Normative Power and southern Mediterranean countries

- EU and Palestine/Israel

- EU and Turkey

- idea of a "new Mediterranean" and EU effectiveness

9 Março 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

- Overview on the feminist waves in the MENA region

- Nationalism: What's beyond?

- The Palestinian case-study

- Wars and conflicts: Women's double burden

- Orientalism as a gendered discourse

- Islam and gender/women: Recognising its complexity

- Veil: Forms, choices and perspectives

- Islamic Feminism(s): Not a strict definitinion

- Women's organisations and states

- Transnational feminism: transcending borders and identities

2 Março 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

- Muslim Brotherhood: the beginning and primary concerns

- From the 1970 onwards (case-study: Ennahda)

- Problematising the definition itself

- Is Political Islam still capable of continued growth?

- Islam and democracy (case-studies: Hezbollah and Hamas)

- Islam and political violence (case-studies: Hezbollah and Hamas)

- Current panorama of "Islamist revival/resurgence"

- Islam and the West

23 Fevereiro 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

- Overcoming clichés: languages, cultures, populations, geographies

- Islam and beyond

- How can we describe the region? To sum up

- Approaching the analysis of Middle East and North Africa

- Structure/organization of the course