"Gender Dynamics in the Arab World: A Reading List" compiled by Dr. Sawsan Gharaibeh
During the Spring 2022 semester, Dr. Sawsan Gharaibeh is teaching the course “Beyond the Uprisings: Gender Dynamics in the Arab World”, and we wanted to share some of her reading list. The course itself is divided into two parts: a chronological survey of women’s realities and portrayals throughout history, and an in-depth exploration of the 2011 Arab Uprisings as a critical moment for Arabs and women in particular. The readings below reflect both parts of the course.
Abu-Lughod, Lila. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Barlas, Asma. Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019.
Boyar, Ebru and Kate Fleet, editors. Ottoman Women in Public Space. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
Galal, Ola. “Gender Justice and the Possibilities and Limits of Digital Mobilization in Post- Arab Spring Tunisia.” Social Science Research Council, 2021. https://items.ssrc.org/10-years-after-the-arab-spring/gender-justice-and-the-possibilities-and-limits-of-digital-mobilization-in-post-arab-spring-tunisia/
Halton, Charles and Saana Svard. Women’s Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Heideman, Kendra, Julia Craig Romano, Veronica Baker, Elena Scott-Kakures, and Nishaat Shaik, editors. Five Years after the Arab Spring: What's Next for Women in the MENA Region? The Wilson Center, 2016. www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/five-years-after-the-arab-spring- whats-next-for-women-the-mena-region
Makdashi, Maya. “The Uprisings Will be Gendered.” Jadaliyya, 2012. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/25320
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba, Mulki Al-Sharmani, and Jana Rumminger, editors. Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition. London: Oneworld Academic, 2016.
Moll, Yasmin. “Living through Thick Concepts in Revolutionary Egypt.” Social Science Research Council, 2021. https://items.ssrc.org/10-years-after-the-arab-spring/living-through-thick-concepts-in-revolutionary-egypt/
Toensing, Chris, editor. “Gender Front Lines.” Middle East Report 268, vol. 43, Fall 2013. merip.org/magazine/268/
Tucker, Judith E. “Women in the Middle East and North Africa: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” Women in the Middle East: Restoring Women to History, edited by Guity Nashat and Judith E. Tucker, Indiana University Press, 1999, pp. 73-133.
UNDP, “The Arab Women’s Movement: Struggles and Experiences.” Arab Human Development Report, 2005. https://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/rbas_ahdr2005_en.pdf
