يسرّنا في مركز دراسة الإسلام و الديمقراطيّة دعوتكم للحضور والمشاركة في محاضرة حول  

Islamic Feminism -

Equal Rights  & Social Justice 

By Prof. Margot Badran 

Professor, Department of Religion, Northwestern University

Lecture will be in English with Arabic Translation

المحاضرة ستكون باللغة الإنقليزيّة مع توفير الترجمة للعربيّة   

2011/06/21   و ذلك اليوم الثلاثاء      

من الساعة السادسة إلى الثامنة ليلاً 

بالمقرّ الجديد لمركز دراسة الإسلام و الديمقراطيّة بتونس

الكائن بحيّ منبليزير، شارع خير الدين باشا، عمارة باشا سنتر

مقابل الجبّانة المسيحيّة 

 مدخل ب - الطابق الخامس - تونس 

Avenue Kheireddine Pacha, Immeuble Pacha Center

Bloc B - 5eme étage، Tunis

Margot Badran is a Senior Fellow, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, Georgetown University.  Her experience and expertise is in Women, gender, and feminism in Islam and Muslim societies; human rights; democracy.

Previously, she served as Fulbright New Century Scholar, 2004-05, Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Religion, Northwestern University, 2003-04, Preceptor, Institute for the Study of Islam in Africa, 2002-04, and Fellow, Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, 2002-03

Major Publications: 

• Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences (Oneworld Press, Oxford, 2008).
• Opening the Gates:An Arab Feminist Anthology (Indiana University Press, 2004) co-editor.
• Feminism, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt (Princeton University Press, 1995). 

Project Summary:

As Muslim women and men now with increasing urgency are demanding equality and justice within the framework of their religion and culture, my project examines ways Islamic feminism promotes these goals within the context of drives for enhanced enjoyment of human rights and the practice of democracy.