Date: Thursday 6 November 2014
Time: 4.30-6pm
Venue: Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Dr Aitemad Muhanna-Matar
Chair: Dr Lori Allen

Dr Aitemad Muhanna-Matar presents the findings of field research conducted in five countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Yemen and the occupied Palestinian territory) in 2013. The research focuses on the emergence of young female leaders who have shaped a new form of women’s activism that merges Islamism with feminism. The research reflects on the form of women's leadership that developed during and after the Arab Uprisings and how it could contribute to redefining women's activism and empowerment and its effect on social and gender transformation in Arab countries.

Aitemad Muhanna-Matar is a research fellow at the Middle East Centre at LSE currently conducting a research on salafist youth in Tunisia and the process of subjectification. Dr Muhanna-Matar's PhD thesis was published in a book ‘Agency and Gender in Gaza: Masculinity, Femininity and Family during the Second Intifada', by Ashgate in October 2013.

Lori Allen is Lecturer in Anthropology (Near and Middle East) at SOAS.

The LSE Middle East Centre (@LSEMiddleEast) opened in 2010. It builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region carried out at LSE.

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