Vol. 14, Iss. 1, 2020

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Slamming the “Continuing” Moroccan Revolution: Noussayba Lahlou’s Bittersweet Verses

30 Jun 2020

Slamming the “Continuing” Moroccan Revolution: Noussayba Lahlou’s Bittersweet Verses
Maha Tazi Article In this article, I am interested in looking at women‘s current mobilization techniques in Post-Arab Spring North Africa. To do so, I draw from the existing literature on the case of Egypt which identifies women’s contemporary resistance in creative disobedience patterns – that is women’s art activism that advocates, concomitantly, for social justice and gender equality. In my attempt to fill an existing gap in…

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The Rise of Fourth-Wave Feminism in the Arab region? Cyberfeminism and Women’s Activism at the Crossroads of the Arab Spring

30 Jun 2020

The Rise of Fourth-Wave Feminism in the Arab region? Cyberfeminism and Women’s Activism at the Crossroads of the Arab Spring
Maha Tazi, Kenza Oumlil Article This article explores the emergence of fourth-wave feminism in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region in the context of the Arab Spring, which was a series of uprisings that followed the self-immolation of Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010 and spread through several countries in the MENA region. The uprisings protested authoritarian regimes and called for democracy, freedom, and social justice. Fourth-wave feminism finds…

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Knowledge Disembodied: From Paper to Digital Media

30 Jun 2020

Knowledge Disembodied: From Paper to Digital Media
Abdullah Ibrahim Omran Article Print and digital media are believed to have shaken religious authority in the Muslim world, essentially because they popularize and pluralize Islamic knowledge. But how exactly did these novel technologies affect the nature of knowledge production and the behavior of scholars and the public? The pages that follow explore the historical relationship between technological developments and the production and transmission of knowledge over the course…

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