Recent work
Opinion
Taking a Stance on Feminists’ Prejudice Against Religious Minority Women
Since researching the experiences of gender discrimination against women in poverty who belong to religious minorities, many fellow feminists have turned their back on me. The inherent assumption among some of my feminist critics is that by defending women who are targeted on account of their...
27 February 2023
Journal Article
Women’s Political Agency in Difficult Settings: Analysis of Evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan
This article explores the nature of challenges experienced by women and how they exercise political agency in such settings—as voters, claimants, and brokers of services, and as activists.
21 February 2023
News
Türkiye-Syria earthquake response: relief efforts being hampered by politics
As the death toll rises day by day, the response to this week’s devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria is being hindered by politics, according to IDS researchers specialising in the region. “The earthquake has underscored how so-called 'political complexity' and access restraints...
10 February 2023
News
Podcast: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East
Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities alike, as bots and trolls proliferate and users are left to navigate an infodemic of fake news and disinformation. In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast,...
31 January 2023
News
Podcast: Global perspectives on redressing religious inequalities
In this episode of Between the Lines podcast, Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Scientist in the World Bank's Development Research Group, interviews Professor Mariz Tadros, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. Mariz is editor of the book: What About Us? Global Perspectives on...
16 December 2022
Opinion
Sportswashing and the Gulf: investments into British football
On October 7, 2021, thousands of Newcastle United football fans gathered at the entrance of St. James’ Park. Across a sea of black and white Newcastle shirts, several supporters waved green flags bearing the Islamic testimony of faith: “there is no God but God. Muhammad is his prophet.” A...
18 November 2022
Book
What About Us? Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities
eBook
How can we make religious equality a reality for those on the margins of society and politics? This book is about the individual and collective struggles of the religiously marginalised to be recognised and their inequalities, religious or otherwise, redressed.
25 October 2022
News
UN aid to Yemen judged ‘unacceptably poor’ by independent evaluation
An independent evaluation of the UN’s unprecedented humanitarian response in Yemen from 2015 to 2021 says the operation has saved lives, improved food security and reduced malnutrition, but overall it is critical of aid that was of “unacceptably poor quality”. Since war broke out in Yemen...
20 July 2022