Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single largest female occupational group migrating globally at present. Their participation in global migration systems has been acknowledged but remains under-theorized. Specifically, the impacts of women migrating into care work in the receiving as well as the sending societies are profound, altering gendered aspects of both societies.
This book explores the position of Islamic theology and jurisprudence towards people with disabilities. It investigates how early and modern
A confluence of events led to the creation of the author's seminar on gender and race in contemporary architecture, prompted by his participation in a campuswide workshop on teaching diversity at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Over the last two decades or more, there has been an increasing attempt to understand the relationship between the modalities of everyday life through the complex cosmopolitan influence of Cairo’s urban history. As Ross King has suggested in Emancipating Space (1996), “There can be no emancipation without unmasking all the linkages of spatial meaning and the kinships between space, knowledge and power . . .
The past few years have carried both great hopes and deep frustrations for the future of democratization in Egypt. The country witnessed a significant national referendum; two major elections, presidential and parliamentary, in September and November–December 2005 respectively; the formation of a pro-reform movement; and a remarkable political vitality. It is uncertain, however, whether these developments will place Egypt on the threshold of a sustainable democratic transformation.
Islamic movements in North Africa have historically been distinguished from their counterparts in other parts of the Arab world because they have demonstrated a marked willingness to work within the political system and have at times even been officially recognized and allowed to participate in local and national elections. As a result, Islamic thinkers from the Maghrib have produced important writing about the role of
Many residents of the Middle East - and more recently, Western powers - have placed great hope in democratization in the region. Yet authoritarianism remains the norm and movement towards democracy is both slow and uneven. The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East examines democracy and democratization in the light of regional realities rather than the wishful thinking of outsiders.
Developing countries have been facing a number of challenges including poverty. Pakistan is one of the developing countries that is home to a large number of poor, constituting about one-third of its population. The state has been introducing different poverty reduction programs from time to time during the last six decades. These include integrated rural development to transfer payments such as