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No Real Freedom without Dismantling the Secret Political Police

The Securitisation of Civil Society

Published by: Routledge

This paper explores the changing role of the State Security Investigations apparatus in the context of an authoritarian regime faced...

Faith-based Service Delivery and Gender Conundrums

Published by: UNRISD

A State of Sectarian Denial

Published by: Middle East Research and Information Project

Many were also quick to claim decisively that al-Qaeda was behind the attack.

Behind Egypt’s Deep Red Lines

Published by: Middle East Research and Information Project

On September 24, thousands joined a gathering outside the al-Qa’id Ibrahim mosque in Egypt’s second city of Alexandria to reiterate the plea for presidential intervention.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Gender Agenda: Reformed or Reframed?

Published by: Wiley

The article argues that the fundamental gendered construction of division of roles and power has not been reformed but reframed through the instrumentalisation of various discourses, despite the active agency of women in support of the movement.

Introduction: Gender, Rights and Religion at the Crossroads

We are at a critical conjuncture in our engagement with issues of religion, politics and women’s equality – in particular in relation to the so-called ‘Muslim world’.

What you see is Not what you get: Fluid, opaque, amoebic power

Published by: Powercube

So perhaps two ways in which we might think differently about power, is in its more fluid, translucent form, what I would call opaque power.

Faith in Service: What has Gender got to do with it?

Faith-based organizations are playing increasingly prominent roles in service delivery. However, the premise that such organisations promote gender equality and the empowerment of women needs critical re-examination.

Quotas: Add Women and Stir?

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin explores what the quota has meant as a motorway to women's accession to political power by drawing on research findings from the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium.