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MERIA

Middle East Review of International Affairs

Volume 9, Number 2, June 2005

 

The Human Rights of Women and Social Transformation in the Arab Middle East
by Hayat Alvi *

 

Abstract

Although recently much attention has been paid to signs of reform and liberalization in the Arab world, there is also considerable evidence of trends in regressive social transformation. One such manifestation is the prevailing attitudes and social policies that continue to deny women their fundamental human rights and freedoms. Arab women continue to suffer major deficiencies in both oil-rich and poorer Arab countries.

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Note *: Hayat Alvi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo, specializing in the Middle East and South Asian regions. She is the author of Regional Integration in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis of Inter-Arab Economic Cooperation (forthcoming, 2005) and "Reconstruction in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: Women and Education" Resources for Feminist Research, Vol. 30, No. 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2004).