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