Introduction to Volume 24.2 Symposium: Women in the Revolution: Gender and Social Justice After the Arab Spring

24 Transnat’l L. & Contemp. Probs. 293 (2015)

U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming

9 Pages Posted: 17 Oct 2019

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Adrien K. Wing

University of Iowa - College of Law

Date Written: August 1, 2019

Abstract

In September 2014, two journals from the University of Iowa College of Law undertook an unprecedented collaboration. Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (“TLCP”) paired with the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice (“JGRJ”) to present Women in the Revolution: Gender and Social Justice After the Arab Spring. The symposium topic included both national and international aspects that played well to the strengths of each publication. The term “Arab Spring” emerged as a result of the revolutionary events in several Arab countries from the winter of 2010 to the spring of 2011. To shed light on the complex situation, the TLCP-JGRJ symposium was the first American law journal publication exclusively dedicated to Muslim/Arab women’s rights in the post-Arab Spring world. Moreover, the symposium let Muslim women speak for themselves by featuring seven distinguished Muslim women professors, lawyers, and activists. They were a diverse group of individuals, and they were careful to indicate that they do not speak for all Muslims, all women, all people from their familial homelands, or all people in the United States.

There were two fascinating keynoter speakers—Professor Mounira Maya Charrad, University of Texas Department of Sociology, and Ms. Fatina Abdrabboh, Esq., Director of the Michigan chapter of the American Arab Antidiscrimination Committee. Other speakers included: Professor Sahar Aziz, Texas A&M Law School; Professor Karima Bennoune, U.C. Davis Law School; Associate Dean Seval Yildirim, Whittier Law School; Professor Shafiqa Ahmadi, University of Southern California School of Education; and Sara Ghadiri, Esq., UI College of Law class of 2014 and former TLCP Editor-in-Chief. In addition, UI Religious Studies Department Professor Ahmed Souaiaia moderated a panel involving Dean Yildirim, Professors Aziz, Bennoune, and Ahmadi, and Ms. Ghadiri.

Keywords: women’s rights, gender, human rights, Arab, Islam, Middle East, Arab spring

Suggested Citation

Wing, Adrien Katherine, Introduction to Volume 24.2 Symposium: Women in the Revolution: Gender and Social Justice After the Arab Spring (August 1, 2019). 24 Transnat’l L. & Contemp. Probs. 293 (2015), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3430426

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