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Asli Karaca
Asli Karaca is interested in contemporary and historical research on politics of gender, religion, dissent, and political participation in the Middle East and North Africa. She has taught and lectured at Central European University, Budapest; American University in Cairo; and Al-Quds University, West Bank. She is currently working on a book project titled “Daring to Cross Boundaries: Women’s Accommodation, Dissent and Transgression in Politico-Religious Debates in Turkey and Egypt”. Her recent publication is a transliteration of a volume of “Women’s World” journal (1913) published in the Ottoman Empire into modern-day Turkish (Libra Books, Istanbul: 2021).
Islam in the Middle East
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Women in Islam
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The authoritarian republic. Islam in France and the Republican illusion
- Haoues Seniguer
Publisher’s presentation The logic of suspicion has become the compass of the French state. Since 2015 and the attacks of January and November, the preventive and repressive policy of the Sta...
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Exclusively for Adherents of ‘Divinely Revealed’ Religions?
- Mohamed Gamal Ali
How did the preparatory work for the Egyptian constitutions discuss issues of freedom of religion and belief? « The term “divinely revealed religions” is used in the constitution, laws, and some...
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Religious Pluralism in Post-“Arab Spring” Morocco
- Youssef Boutahar
Title of the lecture : "Re-problematizing the Religious Majority-Minority Dialectics in Post-Arab Spring Morocco: Between Subalternity and Digital Disobedience" Given the debate currently prevai...
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The Populist Political Style of the Islamist Moroccan party, the PJD
- Amina Drhimeur
Title of the lecture : 'The «Us» Against the «Others», the Populist Political Style of the Islamist party the PJD' How do religious actors understand an increasingly globalised and pluralistic w...
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Muslims and Islamic responses to Hindu Society and Constitutional liberalism in India
- Alam Anwar
In post 9/11, India was increasingly looked upon as successful story of integration of 3rd largest Muslim community in the world. While the rise of Hindu nationalism has posed a threat to Muslim id...
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Personal Status Laws of Women in Egypt and Palestine
- Asli Karaca
Title of the lecture : 'Institutionalized Islam in Personal Status Laws and Challenged Position of Women as ‘the Other’' In most of the Muslim-majority countries, personal status laws are the main...
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Islamists and international relations
- Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
Full title of the conference: "Islamists and International Relations. What worldview? What diplomatic practices? Emergence, evolution and amendment of a culturalist and antagonistic theory of world...
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Muslim as ‘Other’ in former Yugoslavia
- Cédomir Nestorovic
Balkan Islam, and in particular that of the former Yugoslavia, is plural because of its ethnic diversity. However, the collective perception does not see it that way, due to a double homogenisation...