Dina –

1. What do you see a woman as?
2. How do you see women in the ME and do you force that definition on them?
3. What is a women’s movement? What would you expect of it? And do you think it’s possible in the ME?

Burka is oppressive? A ME Women’s movement would be so different from the women’s movement we know here?

A women’s movement is probably about choice, and about allowing women to have the choice to live the lives they could or want to?

Is oppression different? Is it the same as some of the oppression we even experience where we put the oppression on ourselves?

Religion: There are so many different fragmentations within Arab cultures because if you are arab that does not mean that you are a muslim. Religious ideology is extremely diverse.

There are many different ways that you could have a women’s movement… it could be about politics, or about sexual freedom, or about whatever…..

A women’s movement there could have positive/negative (depending on how you see it) on western women.

Elite aristocratic society equated equality and secular ideas that came with colonialism. But the lower and middle classes, completely downtrodden, stepped up and put their foot down and said the “reason” that

If a woman cannot gain an education, they cannot read, and because they cannot read the kuran, they cannot make their own decision about

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