Sumários

The "Arab Spring(s)" and Ongoing Challenges

18 Março 2025, 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"
- Fourteen years later

Syria in the Last Decade: Conflict, Mediation, and Geopolitical Implications

11 Março 2025, 18:00 • Giulia Daniele

Lecture by Abbas Ismail (PhD Candidate in International Studies)

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

25 Fevereiro 2025, 18:00 • Giulia Daniele

- Waves of feminism(s) in the region

- 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
- Islamic Feminism(s)
- Women's organisations and states
- Transnational feminism: Transcending borders and identities

Islam and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

18 Fevereiro 2025, 18:00 • Giulia Daniele

- The beginning: the Muslim Brotherhood

- Primary concerns of the Muslim Brotherhood
- From the 1970s onwards
- Problematising the definition itself
- 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: Meanings, approaches and perspectives

11 Fevereiro 2025, 18:00 • Giulia Daniele

- Presentation of the course

- Introduction to the region
- Overcoming clichés
- Islam and beyond
- How can we define de region? Discussing MENA/SWANA
- Different approaches to analyse the region
- Orientalism