Sumários

The "Arab Spring(s)" and ongoing challenges

10 Março 2026, 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

Gender and Women's Studies in the region

24 Fevereiro 2026, 18:00 Giulia Daniele


- a preliminary overview on the "feminist waves" in the region

- nationalist and women's movements
- the Palestinian case
- women, wars and conflicts
- Orientalism as gendered discourse
- Islam and women/gender: Recognising its complexity
- Islamic feminism(s)
- women's organisations and states
- transnational feminism

Islam and Politics in the MENA/SWANA Region

10 Fevereiro 2026, 18:00 Giulia Daniele


- historical overview

- Muslim Brotherhood: primary concerns
- from the 1970s onwards
- problematising the definition itself
- Islam and democracy: Hezbollah and Hamas
- Islam and political violence: Hezbollah and Hamas
- the current panorama of the "Islamist revival"

Introduction to the region: Meanings, approaches and perspectives

3 Fevereiro 2026, 18:00 Giulia Daniele


- organisation of the course

- map (geographic knowledge)
- overcoming clichés
- Islam and beyond
- how can we describe the region?
- approaching the analysis of the region