How the West Undermined Women's Rights in the Arab World

Speaker: Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick Chair: Aitemad Muhanna-Matar, LSE Oral history remains a largely untapped source in research on the Arab world. Simultaneously, women’s activism in the post-independence period remains relatively understudied, despite a heightened interest in women’s involvement in the Arab uprisings. Based on personal narratives of women activists of different generations in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan, this lecture explores the history of women’s activism in the Arab world from the 1950s onwards. Recorded on 20 January 2016. Image credit: An Egyptian woman tries to stop a military bulldozer in Cairo. Globovisión, Flickr.