{"id":11460,"date":"2018-11-05T16:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/?post_type=videos&#038;p=11460"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:42:16","slug":"the-jinsiyya-obsession-and-the-muwatana-veil-the-constitutional-politics-of-citizenship-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/videos\/the-jinsiyya-obsession-and-the-muwatana-veil-the-constitutional-politics-of-citizenship-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;jinsiyya&#8221; obsession and the Muwatana veil: the constitutional politics of citizenship in the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Conference of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aku.edu\/ismc\/faculty\/Pages\/profile.aspx?ProfileID=14&amp;Name=Gianluca+Parolin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gianluca PAROLIN<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the Second PLURIEL International Congress in Rome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nation-states have added a further level of complexity to the multiple dimensions of belonging: that of (national) citizenship. After tracing some of its past developments, my contribution will focus on its current trends. The constitutional politics of citizenship in the legal systems that use Arabic as their official language, I argue, is a telling incarnation of some of citizenship\u2019s idiosyncrasies in the region.<br \/>\nReferences to \u2018citizenship\u2019 in constitutional texts have multiplied over the past couple of decades, globally. And legal systems that use Arabic as their official language are no exception. Such increase in citizenship provisions in constitutions needs to be closely examined, however, and I will focus on the latter systems.<br \/>\nOne could group these new citizenship provisions in three blocs: (1) provisions on jinsiyya regulations, in line with the liberal trend that prefers to set such regulations at the constitutional level to try and avoid the legislators\u2019 whims on such momentous decisions on membership in the political community; (2) provisions involving single-jinsiyya requirements to hold public office, counter to the liberal tendency to reduce them; and (3) provisions emphasising muwatana as the mode of the political system, in line with the liberal emphasis on the participation of citizens in decision-making.<br \/>\nThe paper will frame these constitutional developments in light of the enforcement that these provisions have seen in recent years. The two trends that seem to be in line with the liberal trend [1 &amp; 3] are contradicted by executive practices and by the very governance design, while the counter-trend [2] has been heavily profited from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"date_tournage":"","lieu":"","nature_evenement":"","vt_type":"Conf\u00e9rence","vt_yt_views":267},"video_collection":[863],"class_list":["post-11460","videos","type-videos","status-publish","hentry","video_collection-congres-de-rome-2018"],"date_tournage":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The &quot;jinsiyya&quot; obsession and the Muwatana veil: the constitutional politics of citizenship in the 21st century - Pluriel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/videos\/the-jinsiyya-obsession-and-the-muwatana-veil-the-constitutional-politics-of-citizenship-in-the-21st-century\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The &quot;jinsiyya&quot; obsession and the Muwatana veil: the constitutional politics of citizenship in the 21st century - Pluriel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Conference of\u00a0Gianluca PAROLIN\u00a0the Second PLURIEL International Congress in Rome. 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