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Women as Imams. Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer, written by Simonetta Calderini

Studi Magrebini

Le lotte per il diritto alla terra in Marocco tra eredità coloniale, privatizzazioni neo-liberiste e patriarcato nel lavoro di ‘ricerca- cittadina’ di Souriya al-Kahlaoui

This paper explores the contents of Soraya al-Kahlaoui’s research and documentary work. In the do... more This paper explores the contents of Soraya al-Kahlaoui’s research and documentary work. In the documentary Landless Moroccans (Morocco, 2017, 50’), the sociologist examines the reasons of the ancient Guich tribe’s protests for the right to the land inRabat. She investigates the struggles of women who resist to the interaction between patriarchal norms, colonial provisions and neo-liberal economic interests. Also based on some interviews with Soraya al-Kahlaoui, this contribution pays attention to her complex role as researcher and activist. Al-Kahlaoui’s action-research approach is defined here as an example of ‘citizen research’ because it gives visibility and power of speech to the protagonists of the social phenomenon that she investigates and, at the same time, it re-signifies her identity as a Moroccan citizen.

“Predicatrici dell’Islam in carcere tra assistenza religiosa e decostruzione di stereotipi”, in M.Bernardini, S. Borrillo, E. Francesca, N. Di Mauro, Jihadismo e Carcere in Italia. Analisi, strategie e pratiche alternative, Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, Roma, 2021 (197-213).

Jihadismo e Carcere in Italia. Analisi, strategie e pratiche alternative (Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino), 2021

Chouftouhonna Festival: Feminist and Queer Artivism as Transformative Agency for a New Politics of Recognition in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Studi Magrebini

In Tunisia, like in other MENA countries, feminism has opened the door to activism advocating for... more In Tunisia, like in other MENA countries, feminism has opened the door to activism advocating for individual liberties and sexual rights. After the 2010-2011 revolution, a new wave of political activism has relied on new forms of cultural and creative practice to reconfigure the public space. This paper utilises ethnographic fieldwork to investigate the experience of the Chouftouhonna Feminist International Art Festival in Tunis as an example of ‘artivism’ – i.e. artistic activism – grounded in secular feminism and advancing LGBTQ+ claims. The first section of this paper explores the multiple ‘dimensions of subversion’ of the Festival. The second section aims to demonstrate why Chouftouhonna’s experience can be analysed as part of a political strategy contributing to a new imagination for a substantive egalitarian citizenship, through both ‘affirmative and transformative remedies to social injustice’. Because the Festival is meant as an expression of ‘transformative agency’, its fou...

Freedom without Permission: Space and Bodies in the Arab Revolutions, edited by Salime, Zalime – Hasso, Frances S

Studi Magrebini

"Returning the megaphone to the people: the Theatre of the Oppressed as artivism in the public space for a new critical citizenry in Morocco"

British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2021

‘We return the megaphone to the people’. This is how the activist Hosni al-Mukhlis describes the ... more ‘We return the megaphone to the people’. This is how the activist Hosni al-Mukhlis describes the aim of the Theater of the Oppressed group that he founded in Casablanca in 2012. He was one of the main leaders of the 20 February Movement in 2011 and today he is involved in what he defines as 'a new social and political pedagogy through art’. Based on interviews and participant observation with Moroccan activists, this article focuses on the Theater of the Oppressed group as an example of the wave of socio-political activism involving artistic practices that emerged after the Arab uprisings in some MENA countries. The paper situates this artivism within the context of political disenchantment and social exclusion experienced in the wake of the failure of the 20 February Movement vis à vis the Moroccan authoritarian politics. The article argues that the Theater of the Oppressed can be interpreted as artivism that generates political transformations, opens critical spaces in the public sphere and promotes emancipatory trajectories for those involved in its mobilizing projects, in functioning as political praxis pursuing a renewed proximity between activists and ordinary people, as well as the creation of a new collective imagination and a critical citizenry.

ARTIVISM, CULTURE, AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION FOR EGALITARIAN CITIZENSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA POST 2011

STUDI MAGREBINI JOURNAL, 2020

My paper is titled: Chouftouhonna Festival: Feminist and Queer Artivism as Transformative Agency ... more

‘Autorità religiosa e attivismo spirituale delle musulmane : uno sguardo al dibattito europeo su uguaglianza di genere, multiculturalismo e Islam’

Islamofobia e razzismo. Media, discorsi pubblici e immaginario nella decostruzione dell’altro, SEB27, Torino, 2020, pp.171-189. , 2020

Sillabo. Conoscere l'Islam per contrastare il radicalismo.

Sillabo elaborato da un gruppo di docenti e ricercatori e ricercatrici del Dipartimento Asia, Afr... more Sillabo elaborato da un gruppo di docenti e ricercatori e ricercatrici del Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo dell'Università L'Orientale di Napoli nell'ambito del Progetto TRAIN TRAINING PROJECT (Corso di formazione pilota per il personale penitenziario destinatario della sperimentazione on the job dello strumento di valutazione del rischio di radicalizzazione all’interno degli istituti penitenziari)

Tra uguaglianza di genere e Islam: I femminismi in Marocco

Fondazione Oasis (a cura di), L’Islam delle donne. Teologhe, femministe, leader politiche, Marsilio, Venezia, 2019

'Dévoilées. Maroc : féminin pluriel', in H. Lebbar (ed.), Femmes et religions. Points de vue de femmes du Maroc, La Croisée des Chemins, Rabat, 2014, pp. 296-301.

Femmes et religions. Points de vue de femmes du Maroc, 2014

Women's Movements and the Recognition of Gender Equality in the Constitution-Making Process in Morocco and Tunisia (2011-2014)

R. Rubio-Marín & H. Irving (Eds.), *Women as Constitution-Makers: Case Studies from the New Democratic Era* (pp. 31-80). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Equality between women and men has been the objective of women’s movements in post-colonial Moroc... more Equality between women and men has been the objective of women’s movements in post-colonial Morocco and Tunisia, and it manifested as one of the emancipatory priorities in the Moroccan and Tunisian uprisings in 2010-2011. Today, the principle of gender equality is explicitly recognised in the Moroccan Constitution of 2011 (Article 19), and in the Tunisian Constitution of 2014 (Article 21). What compromises, confrontations and resistances between central power, transitional institutions and the different forces of civil society helped bring this about? In order to answer this question, two dimensions of analysis are applied in this chapter. In the first part, on a theoretical level, the centrality of the connection between Islam, patriarchy and citizenship is problematised in the systems of power and in the normativity of both countries. In addition, from a historical perspective, it traces the main steps of women’s movements’ struggles for gender equality, demanding the deconstruction of this strict relationship, through the years. In the second and most empirical part, the chapter analyses the ways in which the constitution-making process has been carried out in Morocco and Tunisia. In-depth interviews conducted during multiple fieldwork trips to Rabat and Tunis, in 2011, 2014 and 2016, shed light on the different approaches and stages of the writing process of the constitution, exploring if – and how – it was negotiated with the most representative actors of civil society. Furthermore, the different strategies and political praxis of women’s movements in achieving gender equality are explored. Concerning the Moroccan case, I problematise the debate about gender equality and complementarity that was developed within the ‘20 February Movement’ in relation to the ability of the central power to balance the demands of civil society by recognising gender equality in the new Constitution of 2011. Concerning the Tunisian case, attention is focused on the capability of the historical feminist organisations to influence the constitution-making process during the phase of the ‘transition to democracy’ 2011-2014. Despite the differences between the two cases, women’s movements have proved their importance as social actors in the post-uprising political scenario, and in the bottom-up definition of gender policies that affects the entire society from a political, juridical, economic and social perspective. In both countries, the central power used the narrative of gender equality for political objectives, mainly to advertise its democratic nature. Women’s rights and gender equality remain socially contested, indeed, at the heart of the process of building a collective egalitarian consciousness and a new citizenship based on an egalitarian paradigm.

Il Rif in rivolta: una ricostruzione - https://www.reset.it/reset-doc/marocco-rif-rivolta

Reset - https://www.reset.it/reset-doc/marocco-rif-rivolta, 2017

É stato chiamato Hirāk shaʻabī il 'movimento popolare' del Rif protagonista dell'attualità maroc... more

A Reconstruction of the Rif’s Uprising - https://www.resetdoc.org/story/reconstruction-rifs-uprising/

Reset - https://www.resetdoc.org/story/reconstruction-rifs-uprising/, 2017

The struggles for land rights in Morocco between colonial legacy, neo-liberal privatizations and patriarchy in the ‘citizen research’ of Soraya al-Kahlaoui

La Camera Blu Rivista di Studi di Genere/http://www.camerablu.unina.it/index.php/camerablu/article/view/5703, 2018

This paper explores the contents of Soraya al-Kahlaoui’s research and documentary work. In the do... more This paper explores the contents of Soraya al-Kahlaoui’s research and documentary work. In the documentary Landless Moroccans (Morocco, 2017, 50’), the sociologist examines the reasons of the ancient Guich tribe’s protests for the right to the land inRabat. She investigates the struggles of women who resist to the interaction between patriarchal norms, colonial provisions and neo-liberal economic interests. Also based on some interviews with Soraya al-Kahlaoui, this contribution pays attention to her complex role as researcher and activist. Al-Kahlaoui’s action-research approach is defined here as an example of ‘citizen research’ because it gives visibility and power of speech to the protagonists of the social phenomenon that she investigates and, at the same time, it resignifies her identity as a Moroccan citizen.
PDF here: http://www.rmojs.unina.it/index.php/camerablu/article/view/5703/6334

Islamic female religious authority between agency and governmentality. From the Moroccan model to the 'multicultural' Europe

“Islamic female religious authority between agency and governmentality: from the Moroccan model t... more “Islamic female religious authority between agency and governmentality: from the Moroccan model to ‘multicultural’ Europe”, in J.J. De Ruiter, M. Hashas, V. Niels (eds.), Imams in Western Europe. Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 203-227.

Imams in Western Europe Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges

Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges aims to open... more Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges aims to open new pathways of research on Islam in Western Europe in particular and modern Islamic religious authority in general. The emerging role of imams as new agents of religious authority in Western predominantly secular societies seems to be shaping a new authority that negotiates the place of religion within modern state institutions, and thus implanting Islamic religious identity into the European soil and culture. Simultaneously, the internal-external difficulties these new agents face within these state institutions and the impacts from their homelands challenge the smoothness of this European-growing religious authority. The institutionalization of the imamate in Western Europe is a growing fact for two main reasons: first to develop a European Islamic religious authority adaptive to the European mindscape, and second to face external religious authorities whose discourses are often seen to be more political and not in full harmony with the modern values of Europe.

Gli studi di genere in contesto islamico: una rassegna

in Altri Femminismi, Manifestolibri, 2018, pp. 215- 222.

The Making of Feminist History, the Woman Citizen and the Nation in Modern Egypt. Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces. Writing Feminist History through Biography in fin-de-siècle Egypt (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015): 472 pp.

EURASIAN STUDIES, 2017

Review Article in Eurasian Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2017, pp. 158-165.

Egalité de genre au Maroc après 2011 ? Les droits sexuels et reproductifs au centre des récentes luttes de reconnaissance

A.M. Di Tolla - E. Francesca (eds.), Emerging Actors in Post- Revolutionary North Africa. Gender Mobility and Social Activism, STUDI MAGREBINI, Università di Napoli L’Orientale”, Napoli 2017, 2016

PDF-->https://unora.unior.it/handle/11574/176355#.W59whv4zbOQ This paper explores some discourses... more PDF-->https://unora.unior.it/handle/11574/176355#.W59whv4zbOQ
This paper explores some discourses and actions oriented to a new conception of
the women’s body and the individual liberties that some social Moroccan actors put
in place after 2011. On the one hand, it analyzes the impact of social and political
activism in urban contexts on the recognition of the formal equality between women
and men. On the other hand, it points out the importance of sexual rights in the
debates about the gender equality and the ‘right to have rights’. In particular,
through the analysis of some political and artistic experiences in Moroccan civil
society, it demonstrates the emergence and the importance of gender issues and
sexual rights in the struggles for the ‘rights to recognition’. On what basis, against
what resistances and within what perspective is it possible to imagine a renewed
conception of the female body as an essential axis of the construction of gender
equality after 2011 in Morocco?

Women as Imams. Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer, written by Simonetta Calderini

Studi Magrebini

Le lotte per il diritto alla terra in Marocco tra eredità coloniale, privatizzazioni neo-liberiste e patriarcato nel lavoro di ‘ricerca- cittadina’ di Souriya al-Kahlaoui

This paper explores the contents of Soraya al-Kahlaoui’s research and documentary work. In the do... more This paper explores the contents of Soraya al-Kahlaoui’s research and documentary work. In the documentary Landless Moroccans (Morocco, 2017, 50’), the sociologist examines the reasons of the ancient Guich tribe’s protests for the right to the land inRabat. She investigates the struggles of women who resist to the interaction between patriarchal norms, colonial provisions and neo-liberal economic interests. Also based on some interviews with Soraya al-Kahlaoui, this contribution pays attention to her complex role as researcher and activist. Al-Kahlaoui’s action-research approach is defined here as an example of ‘citizen research’ because it gives visibility and power of speech to the protagonists of the social phenomenon that she investigates and, at the same time, it re-signifies her identity as a Moroccan citizen.

“Predicatrici dell’Islam in carcere tra assistenza religiosa e decostruzione di stereotipi”, in M.Bernardini, S. Borrillo, E. Francesca, N. Di Mauro, Jihadismo e Carcere in Italia. Analisi, strategie e pratiche alternative, Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, Roma, 2021 (197-213).

Jihadismo e Carcere in Italia. Analisi, strategie e pratiche alternative (Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino), 2021

Chouftouhonna Festival: Feminist and Queer Artivism as Transformative Agency for a New Politics of Recognition in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Studi Magrebini

In Tunisia, like in other MENA countries, feminism has opened the door to activism advocating for... more In Tunisia, like in other MENA countries, feminism has opened the door to activism advocating for individual liberties and sexual rights. After the 2010-2011 revolution, a new wave of political activism has relied on new forms of cultural and creative practice to reconfigure the public space. This paper utilises ethnographic fieldwork to investigate the experience of the Chouftouhonna Feminist International Art Festival in Tunis as an example of ‘artivism’ – i.e. artistic activism – grounded in secular feminism and advancing LGBTQ+ claims. The first section of this paper explores the multiple ‘dimensions of subversion’ of the Festival. The second section aims to demonstrate why Chouftouhonna’s experience can be analysed as part of a political strategy contributing to a new imagination for a substantive egalitarian citizenship, through both ‘affirmative and transformative remedies to social injustice’. Because the Festival is meant as an expression of ‘transformative agency’, its fou...

Freedom without Permission: Space and Bodies in the Arab Revolutions, edited by Salime, Zalime – Hasso, Frances S

Studi Magrebini

"Returning the megaphone to the people: the Theatre of the Oppressed as artivism in the public space for a new critical citizenry in Morocco"

British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2021

‘We return the megaphone to the people’. This is how the activist Hosni al-Mukhlis describes the ... more ‘We return the megaphone to the people’. This is how the activist Hosni al-Mukhlis describes the aim of the Theater of the Oppressed group that he founded in Casablanca in 2012. He was one of the main leaders of the 20 February Movement in 2011 and today he is involved in what he defines as 'a new social and political pedagogy through art’. Based on interviews and participant observation with Moroccan activists, this article focuses on the Theater of the Oppressed group as an example of the wave of socio-political activism involving artistic practices that emerged after the Arab uprisings in some MENA countries. The paper situates this artivism within the context of political disenchantment and social exclusion experienced in the wake of the failure of the 20 February Movement vis à vis the Moroccan authoritarian politics. The article argues that the Theater of the Oppressed can be interpreted as artivism that generates political transformations, opens critical spaces in the public sphere and promotes emancipatory trajectories for those involved in its mobilizing projects, in functioning as political praxis pursuing a renewed proximity between activists and ordinary people, as well as the creation of a new collective imagination and a critical citizenry.

ARTIVISM, CULTURE, AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION FOR EGALITARIAN CITIZENSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA POST 2011

STUDI MAGREBINI JOURNAL, 2020

My paper is titled: Chouftouhonna Festival: Feminist and Queer Artivism as Transformative Agency ... more

‘Autorità religiosa e attivismo spirituale delle musulmane : uno sguardo al dibattito europeo su uguaglianza di genere, multiculturalismo e Islam’

Islamofobia e razzismo. Media, discorsi pubblici e immaginario nella decostruzione dell’altro, SEB27, Torino, 2020, pp.171-189. , 2020

Sillabo. Conoscere l'Islam per contrastare il radicalismo.

Sillabo elaborato da un gruppo di docenti e ricercatori e ricercatrici del Dipartimento Asia, Afr... more Sillabo elaborato da un gruppo di docenti e ricercatori e ricercatrici del Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo dell'Università L'Orientale di Napoli nell'ambito del Progetto TRAIN TRAINING PROJECT (Corso di formazione pilota per il personale penitenziario destinatario della sperimentazione on the job dello strumento di valutazione del rischio di radicalizzazione all’interno degli istituti penitenziari)

Tra uguaglianza di genere e Islam: I femminismi in Marocco

Fondazione Oasis (a cura di), L’Islam delle donne. Teologhe, femministe, leader politiche, Marsilio, Venezia, 2019

'Dévoilées. Maroc : féminin pluriel', in H. Lebbar (ed.), Femmes et religions. Points de vue de femmes du Maroc, La Croisée des Chemins, Rabat, 2014, pp. 296-301.

Femmes et religions. Points de vue de femmes du Maroc, 2014

Women's Movements and the Recognition of Gender Equality in the Constitution-Making Process in Morocco and Tunisia (2011-2014)

R. Rubio-Marín & H. Irving (Eds.), *Women as Constitution-Makers: Case Studies from the New Democratic Era* (pp. 31-80). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Equality between women and men has been the objective of women’s movements in post-colonial Moroc... more Equality between women and men has been the objective of women’s movements in post-colonial Morocco and Tunisia, and it manifested as one of the emancipatory priorities in the Moroccan and Tunisian uprisings in 2010-2011. Today, the principle of gender equality is explicitly recognised in the Moroccan Constitution of 2011 (Article 19), and in the Tunisian Constitution of 2014 (Article 21). What compromises, confrontations and resistances between central power, transitional institutions and the different forces of civil society helped bring this about? In order to answer this question, two dimensions of analysis are applied in this chapter. In the first part, on a theoretical level, the centrality of the connection between Islam, patriarchy and citizenship is problematised in the systems of power and in the normativity of both countries. In addition, from a historical perspective, it traces the main steps of women’s movements’ struggles for gender equality, demanding the deconstruction of this strict relationship, through the years. In the second and most empirical part, the chapter analyses the ways in which the constitution-making process has been carried out in Morocco and Tunisia. In-depth interviews conducted during multiple fieldwork trips to Rabat and Tunis, in 2011, 2014 and 2016, shed light on the different approaches and stages of the writing process of the constitution, exploring if – and how – it was negotiated with the most representative actors of civil society. Furthermore, the different strategies and political praxis of women’s movements in achieving gender equality are explored. Concerning the Moroccan case, I problematise the debate about gender equality and complementarity that was developed within the ‘20 February Movement’ in relation to the ability of the central power to balance the demands of civil society by recognising gender equality in the new Constitution of 2011. Concerning the Tunisian case, attention is focused on the capability of the historical feminist organisations to influence the constitution-making process during the phase of the ‘transition to democracy’ 2011-2014. Despite the differences between the two cases, women’s movements have proved their importance as social actors in the post-uprising political scenario, and in the bottom-up definition of gender policies that affects the entire society from a political, juridical, economic and social perspective. In both countries, the central power used the narrative of gender equality for political objectives, mainly to advertise its democratic nature. Women’s rights and gender equality remain socially contested, indeed, at the heart of the process of building a collective egalitarian consciousness and a new citizenship based on an egalitarian paradigm.

Il Rif in rivolta: una ricostruzione - https://www.reset.it/reset-doc/marocco-rif-rivolta

Reset - https://www.reset.it/reset-doc/marocco-rif-rivolta, 2017

É stato chiamato Hirāk shaʻabī il 'movimento popolare' del Rif protagonista dell'attualità maroc... more

A Reconstruction of the Rif’s Uprising - https://www.resetdoc.org/story/reconstruction-rifs-uprising/

Reset - https://www.resetdoc.org/story/reconstruction-rifs-uprising/, 2017

The struggles for land rights in Morocco between colonial legacy, neo-liberal privatizations and patriarchy in the ‘citizen research’ of Soraya al-Kahlaoui

La Camera Blu Rivista di Studi di Genere/http://www.camerablu.unina.it/index.php/camerablu/article/view/5703, 2018

This paper explores the contents of Soraya al-Kahlaoui’s research and documentary work. In the do... more This paper explores the contents of Soraya al-Kahlaoui’s research and documentary work. In the documentary Landless Moroccans (Morocco, 2017, 50’), the sociologist examines the reasons of the ancient Guich tribe’s protests for the right to the land inRabat. She investigates the struggles of women who resist to the interaction between patriarchal norms, colonial provisions and neo-liberal economic interests. Also based on some interviews with Soraya al-Kahlaoui, this contribution pays attention to her complex role as researcher and activist. Al-Kahlaoui’s action-research approach is defined here as an example of ‘citizen research’ because it gives visibility and power of speech to the protagonists of the social phenomenon that she investigates and, at the same time, it resignifies her identity as a Moroccan citizen.
PDF here: http://www.rmojs.unina.it/index.php/camerablu/article/view/5703/6334

Islamic female religious authority between agency and governmentality. From the Moroccan model to the 'multicultural' Europe

“Islamic female religious authority between agency and governmentality: from the Moroccan model t... more “Islamic female religious authority between agency and governmentality: from the Moroccan model to ‘multicultural’ Europe”, in J.J. De Ruiter, M. Hashas, V. Niels (eds.), Imams in Western Europe. Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 203-227.

Imams in Western Europe Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges

Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges aims to open... more Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges aims to open new pathways of research on Islam in Western Europe in particular and modern Islamic religious authority in general. The emerging role of imams as new agents of religious authority in Western predominantly secular societies seems to be shaping a new authority that negotiates the place of religion within modern state institutions, and thus implanting Islamic religious identity into the European soil and culture. Simultaneously, the internal-external difficulties these new agents face within these state institutions and the impacts from their homelands challenge the smoothness of this European-growing religious authority. The institutionalization of the imamate in Western Europe is a growing fact for two main reasons: first to develop a European Islamic religious authority adaptive to the European mindscape, and second to face external religious authorities whose discourses are often seen to be more political and not in full harmony with the modern values of Europe.

Gli studi di genere in contesto islamico: una rassegna

in Altri Femminismi, Manifestolibri, 2018, pp. 215- 222.

The Making of Feminist History, the Woman Citizen and the Nation in Modern Egypt. Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces. Writing Feminist History through Biography in fin-de-siècle Egypt (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015): 472 pp.

EURASIAN STUDIES, 2017

Review Article in Eurasian Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2017, pp. 158-165.

Egalité de genre au Maroc après 2011 ? Les droits sexuels et reproductifs au centre des récentes luttes de reconnaissance

A.M. Di Tolla - E. Francesca (eds.), Emerging Actors in Post- Revolutionary North Africa. Gender Mobility and Social Activism, STUDI MAGREBINI, Università di Napoli L’Orientale”, Napoli 2017, 2016

PDF-->https://unora.unior.it/handle/11574/176355#.W59whv4zbOQ This paper explores some discourses... more PDF-->https://unora.unior.it/handle/11574/176355#.W59whv4zbOQ
This paper explores some discourses and actions oriented to a new conception of
the women’s body and the individual liberties that some social Moroccan actors put
in place after 2011. On the one hand, it analyzes the impact of social and political
activism in urban contexts on the recognition of the formal equality between women
and men. On the other hand, it points out the importance of sexual rights in the
debates about the gender equality and the ‘right to have rights’. In particular,
through the analysis of some political and artistic experiences in Moroccan civil
society, it demonstrates the emergence and the importance of gender issues and
sexual rights in the struggles for the ‘rights to recognition’. On what basis, against
what resistances and within what perspective is it possible to imagine a renewed
conception of the female body as an essential axis of the construction of gender
equality after 2011 in Morocco?

Femminismi contemporanei

Università di Messina

SEMINARI DONNE, ISLAM, DIIRITTI DIBATTITI E NUOVE SFIDE TRA RELIGIONE E POLITICA

Corso di Diritto islamico_2020-21, UNIVERSITà ROMA TRE.

CONFERENCE_Gender, Marginality, and Empowerment in post-revolutionary North Africa

9th-12th October 2017- University L'Orientale in Naples

Women's History across the borders: a conversation with Karen Offen

by Sara Borrillo and Elisabetta Bini

Seminar_Women, Faith and Culture

Progress usually tends to be measured according to the criteria of science and technology. Nor fr... more Progress usually tends to be measured according to the criteria of science and technology. Nor from this point of view has the contribution of women been negligible. Even so, this is not the only measure of progress, nor in fact is it the principal one. Much more important is the social and ethical dimension, which deals with human relations and spiritual values. In this area, which often develops in an inconspicuous way beginning with the daily relationships between people, especially within the family, society certainly owes much to the "genius of women". POPE JOHN PAUL II TO WOMEN (

Tradizioni, circolarità e orizzonti concettuali Per una conversazione sui femminismi islamici oggi

La Sapienza, Università di Roma, 1 ottobre 2018

Svelate.Marocco:femminile plurale. Svelare storie per decostruire stereotipi

 Achille Pisanti (Univ. di Salerno): Lo spostamento del conflitto nella postfiction seriale VENE... more  Achille Pisanti (Univ. di Salerno): Lo spostamento del conflitto nella postfiction seriale VENERDÌ 29 MAGGIO 9:15 -11:15 GRAMMATICHE DEL SÉ Coordinamento: Gianfranco Pecchinenda, José Louis Mora  Luigi Caramiello (Federico II): Narrare la melanconia. Una prospettiva sociologica  Marta Vignola (Univ. Salento): Narrazione, memoria e identità nella giustizia di transizione  Corrado Punzi (Univ. Salento): Il fu Ettore Majorana. La narrazione dell'alterità moderna  Alessandra Santoro (Federico II): Narrare l'immortalità  Emily Heavey (York University): Positioning the prosthetic: The narrative construction of prostheses in relation to self, other, and society 11:15 -11:30 Coffee break 11:30 -13:30 NARRARE IL CORPO Coordinamento: Luca Bifulco, Antonio Cavicchia Scalamonti  Antonio Camorrino (Federico II): Le trasformazioni dell'immagine dell'umano. Il corpo come laboratorio cosmologico  Sara Borrillo (Orientale Napoli): Svelate. Marocco {f. pl.}: femminile plurale: svelare storie per decostruire stereotipi  Giovanni Bove (Univ. Ca' Foscari): Sua santità il corpo. Narrazione e branding nel martirio del San Sebastiano di Ozmo  Silvia Potì (Univ. Bologna): Corpo, emozioni e linguaggio: le storie possibili della malattia  Valentina Fedele (Univ. Calabria): Narrazioni delle mascolinità islamiche: riflessioni preliminari sulla mobilitazione del riferimento religioso nelle competizioni sportive 13:30 -15:00 Pausa pranzo 15:00 -17:00 STORIA DI STORIE, NARRARE IL MONDO Coordinamento: Oreste Ventrone, Serge Gruzinsky  Sabrina Garofalo (Univ. Calabria): Narrazione e migrazioni delle donne. Aspetti metodologici di una esperienza di ricerca  Elena Trapanese (Univ. Autonoma Madrid): Narrare, narrarsi l'esilio  Davide De Sanctis (Federico II): Religione e Umanità nel positivismo di Auguste Comte  Mauro Di Meglio (Orientale Napoli): La modernità contesa. Spazi e tempi di una grande narrazione  Paola Gorla (Orientale Napoli): Discontinuità narrative e temporali nel don Chisciotte 17:00 Chiusura dei lavori

Autorités religieuses feminines dans l’Islam marocain : un modèle pour l’Europe multiculturelle?

conference LES IMAMA DANS LA CITé SECULIERE_ AIX en PROVENCE

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Vers une nouvelle conception du corps féminin au Maroc: discours, experciences et résultats de la lutte pour l'égalité de genre apres le Mouvement du 20 Février

A partir des premiers pas du Mouvement du 20 Février, qui a bouleversé la vie politique marocaine... more A partir des premiers pas du Mouvement du 20 Février, qui a bouleversé la vie politique marocaine depuis 2011, les différentes courantes internes, dont la participation féminine a été remarquable, ont présenté deux conceptions des droits des femmes et des rôles sociaux inspirées respectivement au principe de l’égalité et de la complémentarité de genre. Un des résultats plus évidents de la lutte pour l’égalité a été la formalisation de ce principe dans l’article 19 de la nouvelle Constitution du 1er juillet 2011.
Cet acquis, salué avec faveur par certaines associations du féminisme historique marocain, a été jugé non suffisant par d’autres composantes de la société civile de nouvelle et non classique formation, qui ont continué à militer jusqu’à aujourd’hui pour la construction “substantielle” de l’égalité de genre. Parmi leurs revendications, la question du corps des femmes a été centrale.
Le persistant harcèlement sexuel et le phénomène des violences basées sur le genre ont représenté l’objet de campagnes, débats et manifestations que, surtout dans les contextes urbains de Rabat et Casablanca, ont invoqué le droit à la liberté et à des choix autodéterminées liées au corps.
Cette intervention vise à explorer les discours et les actions mis en place par certaines réalités sociales actives en contexte urbain (Rabat et Casablanca) sur le plan politique et culturel pour une nouvelle conception du corps des femmes au Maroc.
D’un côté, elle sera analysée la militance de certaines associations et groupes spontanés, et des résultats obtenus, parmi lesquels la discussion parlementaire sur un projet de lois contre le harcèlement sexuel dans l’espace publique (novembre 2013) et l’abolition parlementaire (22 Janvier 2014) de l’alinéa 2 de l’article 475 du Code pénale, qui dépénalise l’acte de violence sexuelle sur une mineure si le violeur la marrie. De l’autre côté, il sera examiné le débat soulevé autour du corps dans le monde culturel, et en particulier par le groupe de théâtre féministe Acquarium de Akkari (Rabat), qui avec la mise en scène du texte Les monologues du vagin en dharija (Dialy) a démarré une série de spectacles sur des thématiques considérées tabous au Maroc, comme le sexe, la virginité pre-matrimoniale, les mariages des mineurs. Pendant la rédaction de cet abstract, en plus, le MALI (Mouvement alternatif pour les libertés individuelles) est en train d’organiser à Rabat (le 1er Février 2014) une manifestation pour le droit à l’avortement.
Ces expériences montrent que l’action de plusieurs forces de la société marocaine, engagées pour le changement de lois et des mentalités en direction de l’égalité de genre, tourne au tour de la question du corps féminin. Sur la base de quel discours, contre quelles résistances et avec quelle perspective une renouvelée conception du corps des femmes représente un axe incontournable de la construction de l’égalité de genre au Maroc ?

Critique islamique de genre et nouvelles actrices religieuses: quelques reflection a partir du cas marocain.

Le débat interne au discours du « féminisme islamique » concerne de façon significative l’autorep... more Le débat interne au discours du « féminisme islamique » concerne de façon significative l’autoreprésentation de féministe de ses représentantes. Apres avoir considérée quelques raisons de ce débat, je décris comme l’expression « critique islamique de genre » (Rhouni) vise à restituer un plus large consensus à l’objectif prioritaire de ce discours, c'est-à-dire la reforme interne aux sociétés à majorité musulmane, vers un Islam conçu comme un « plaidoyer dynamique de la modernité » (Talbi).
La stratégie de ce discours propose deux processus parallèles: d’un coté, l’élaboration d’une exégèse des sources de la « normativité islamique » (Dupret) - le Coran et la Sunna -, inspirée à l’esprit égalitaire de la Révélation, et d'un autre coté, la promotion de la participation des femmes à l’élaboration et à la transmission du savoir islamique. Là où l’Islam en tant que dīn wa dawla, croyance et référence de l’organisation étatique, est utilisé comme source de légitimation du patriarcat, la critique islamique de genre se configure comme innovante, sinon révolutionnaire.
Au Maroc cette potentialité a été interceptée par l’état, qui a promu une féminisation des institutions religieuses à plusieurs niveaux de l’autorité islamique, en utilisant le rôle pédagogique féminin en faveur du discours canonique sur les relations de genre. A partir d’une analyse des discours des actrices religieuses, basée sur le travail ethnographique de mes études doctorales, je vais montrer qu’elles mêmes sont des « sujets » promoteurs du discours patriarcale (Mahmood).
Quel défi propose, alors, le cas marocaine à la « critique islamique de genre » ? Vu que l’état a clairement réussi dans sa stratégie de féminisme (aussi) islamique d’état (Eddauada et Pepicelli), sera convenable revenir à une représentation plus militante du féminisme islamique ? Quelle stratégie sociétale et quels acteurs est urgent d’intégrer pour créer un consensus plus transversal autour de l’égalité de genre?

“The “gender jihad” of Asma Lamrabet in Morocco: a self-negotiated religious authority”

This talk was presented during the conference "Women, leadership and authority in Islam and Chris... more

“Féminisation des institutions réligieuses au Maroc entre égalité et complementarité”

This talk was presented during the seminar "Les enjeux du religieux dans une société en transitio... more

Le diseguaglianze di genere nella prospettiva del diritto islamico con particolare riferimento al Marocco

La "transizione democratica" in Marocco (The "democratic transition" in Morocco)

This talk was presented during the seminar "Transizioni democratiche e strategie geopolitiche" (D... more

Femminismi in Marocco tra politiche di genere e movimenti sociali. Alcune evoluzioni recenti (FeminismS in Morocco between gender politics and social movements. Some recent evolutions)

This talk was presented during the seminar "Femminismi nel Mediterraneo" (Feminisms in Mediterran... more

“Le predicatrici dell’Islam in Marocco” (Muslim women preachers in Morocco)

This paper was presented during the seminar Islamic Feminism and Qur'anic exegesis/ (Auto) Repre... more This paper was presented during the seminar Islamic Feminism and Qur'anic exegesis/ (Auto) Representations. Gender rights and identities in MENA area - “Femminismo islamico ed esegesi coranica/ Rappresentazioni ed autorappresentazioni. Diritti e identità di genere in Nord Africa e Vicino Oriente".

The 20th February Movement and the constitutional reform: a democratic compromise? A gender-based reading”

This paper was presented during the doctoral workshop “Thinking the “Unthinkable”. Contestations ... more

"Féminisme islamique et islamisme au féminin on line : une analyse de la sphère publique féminine sur le web. Le cas d'aucunes pages web du Maroc".

This paper was presented during the conference: “Women and media in the Mediterranean region” at ... more

“Femmes et religion: quelle marginalisation? Etude de cas sur le mourchidates de l’Islam au Maroc”

Svelate. Marocco: {f. pl.} femminile plurale - Unveiled. Morocco: {f. pl.} Feminine plural

The project "Unveiled. Morocco: {f. pl.} Feminine plural" starts in 2010 thanks to an idea of Sar... more The project "Unveiled. Morocco: {f. pl.} Feminine plural" starts in 2010 thanks to an idea of Sara Borrillo and Michela Pandolfi, in which Sara's field work in Morocco, leaded since 2008, encounters the photography of Michela.

“Unveiled” is a play on words with images.

It is a collection of stories of women – sometimes veiled– that aims to free our mentalities and question stereotypes.

The photo-narrative project aims at drawing attention to female profiles that make the difference breaking, accepting, contesting or modifying real and imagined boundaries of social and patriarchal rules.

Diritti delle donne tra Islam e Occidente: quale uguaglianza?

Hasso, Frances S., Salime, Zalime (eds.) (2016) Freedom without Permission: Space and Bodies in the Arab Revolutions. Durham, Duke University Press

Studi Maghrebini, 2020

BOOK REVIEW OF Simonetta Calderini, Women as Imams. Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer, I.B. Tauris, London-New York, 2020, 248pp.,

STUDI MAGHREBINI/NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES, 2022

BOOK REVIEW/ Smith, Jill Suzanne, Berlin Coquette. Prostitution and the new German woman, 1890-1933.

Passato e Presente (99), 2016

BOOK REVIEW/ Karami L., Scarcia Amoretti B., Il protagonismo delle donne in terra d’Islam, Ediesse Roma, 2015 (pp. 335).

INGENERE, 2017

BOOK REVIEW, Daniele, Giulia, Women, Reconciliation and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Road not yet Taken, Routledge, New York-London, 2014 (XIV + 179 pp.).

Studi Magrebini, 2018

BOOK REVIEW Arablit, VII-13, giugno 2017, pp.100-104: Vanzan A., Pepicelli, R. (a cura di), I movimenti delle donne in Nord Africa e Medio Oriente: percorsi e generazioni “femministe” a confronto, Afriche e Orienti, XVIII, 1/2016 (pp. 160).

Arablit, 2017

La rivista di Arablit, fondata da Isabella Camera d'Afflitto nel 2011, pubblica articoli di carat... more

Book review of L. Scudieri, Oltre i confini dell’harem. Femminismi islamici e diritto, Milano, Ledizioni, 2013, pp. 343

Jihadismo e carcere in Italia. Analisi, strategie e pratiche alternative

Istituto C.A. Nallino, Roma, 2021

Imams in Western Europe Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges

by yahya pallavicini and Sara Borrillo

T. Bertilotti, C. Galasso, A. Gissi, F. Lagorio (eds), Altri femminismi. corpi#violenza#riproduzione#culture#lavoro

by Teresa Bertilotti, Beatrice Busi, Adriana Nannicini, and Sara Borrillo

BOOK, Feminisms and Islam in Morocco. Women secular activists, theologians, preachers

Quale rapporto lega istanze femministe, politiche di genere e Islam nel Marocco contemporaneo? E ... more Quale rapporto lega istanze femministe, politiche di genere e Islam nel Marocco contemporaneo? E come è cambiato negli ultimi decenni e nel periodo successivo alle proteste del 2011? Grazie a una serie di approfonditi focus etnografici, questo libro lascia emergere le voci dirette delle protagoniste del dibattito sui diritti delle donne: dalle attiviste laiche del femminismo storico alle sempre più importanti intellettuali del femminismo islamico, fino alle teologhe e alle predicatrici dell'Islam di stato. In questo scenario, i due principi di uguaglianza di genere e di complementarità di ispirazione islamica vengono risignificati da attori sociali e istituzioni islamiche ufficiali. E, nel solco del fermento politico e culturale innescato dal Movimento del 20 Febbraio, si intravedono possibili sinergie.

book: Feminisms and Islam in Morocco. Secular activists, women theologists and preachers (in Italian)

Quale rapporto lega istanze femministe, politiche di genere e Islam nel Marocco contemporaneo? E ... more Quale rapporto lega istanze femministe, politiche di genere e Islam nel Marocco contemporaneo? E come è cambiato negli ultimi decenni e nel periodo successivo alle proteste del 2011? Grazie a una serie di approfonditi focus etnografici, questo libro lascia emergere le voci dirette delle protagoniste del dibattito sui diritti delle donne: dalle attiviste laiche del femminismo storico alle sempre più importanti intellettuali del femminismo islamico, fino alle teologhe e alle predicatrici dell'Islam di stato. In questo scenario, i due principi di uguaglianza di genere e di complementarità di ispirazione islamica vengono risignificati da attori sociali e istituzioni islamiche ufficiali. E, nel solco del fermento politico e culturale innescato dal Movimento del 20 Febbraio, si intravedono possibili sinergie.

Donne, Religioni e Maternità nel Mondo Contemporaneo

by Igor Baglioni, Giulia Pedrucci, Lorenzo Verderame, Sara Rossetti, LAYLA MUSTAPHA, Sara Borrillo, Mohammed Hashas, and Romina Rossi

Cari amici, ho il piacere di invitarmi al seminario Donne, Religioni e Maternità nel Mondo Contem... more Cari amici, ho il piacere di invitarmi al seminario Donne, Religioni e Maternità nel Mondo Contemporaneo che si terrà presso la Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia della Sapienza venerdì 2 e sabato 3 marzo.
L’ingresso naturalmente è libero.
In basso potete trovare il programma del seminario e riferimenti utili per poter ottenere ulteriori informazioni.

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Programma:
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Donne, Religioni e Maternità nel Mondo Contemporaneo

II Seminario su
Donne e Religioni nel Mondo Contemporaneo
2-3 marzo 2018
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Sapienza Università di Roma
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Roma

Venerdì 2 marzo - ore 10:30
Aula Odeion, Museo dell’Arte Classica

Saluti istituzionali:
Emanuela Prinzivalli, Direttore del Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Religioni
Igor Baglioni, Direttore del Museo delle Religioni “Raffale Pettazzoni”
Luigi De Salvia, Segretario Generale “Religions for Peace Italia”
Giuliano Cugini, Presidente dell’Associazione Calliope

Prima Sessione: Donne, Religioni e Maternità dall’Antichità all’Età Contemporanea. La Ricerca e i suoi Metodi

Coordina: Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”)

Tavola Rotonda a Margine del Libro:
Maternità e Politeismi - Motherhood(s) and Polytheisms,
a cura di Florence Pasche Guignard, Giulia Pedrucci e Marianna Scapini
Patron Editore, Bologna 2017

Intervengono:
Lorenzo Verderame (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Sergio Ribichini (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
Giulia Pedrucci (University of Erfurt)

Pausa

Tavola rotonda:
Donne, Religioni e Maternità nelle Comunità di Migranti a Roma

Intervengono:
Franca Eckert Coen (Religioni per la Pace “Donne in Dialogo”)
Katiuscia Carnà (Università di Roma Tre)
Sara Rossetti (Studiosa di Storia Politica e Sociale dell’Europa Moderna e Contemporanea)

Venerdì 2 marzo - ore 15:00
Aula Odeion, Museo dell’Arte Classica

Seconda Sessione: Donne, Religioni e Maternità nell’Islam e nel Mondo Musulmano

Coordina: Leila Karami (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Tavola Rotonda:
Maternità e Religioni nel Medio Oriente

Intervengono:
Layla Mustapha (Islamista)
Isabella Camera d’Afflitto (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Bianca Maria Filippini (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Deborah Scolart (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”)

Pausa

Presentazione del libro:
Femminismi e Islam in Marocco. Attiviste laiche, teologhe, predicatrici, di Sara Borrillo
Edizioni scientifiche italiane, Napoli 2017

Interviene:
Mohammed Hashas (Università degli Studi di Roma “Luiss Guido Carli”)

Sabato 3 marzo - ore 9:30
Aula A, sezione di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea, II piano della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia

Terza Sessione: Donne, Religioni e Maternità in Italia e in Europa

Coordina: Roberto Caldara (Avvocato e componente del Progetto Cultura e Spettacolo e del Progetto Giovani dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma)

Tavola Rotonda
Orientamenti italiani ed europei sulla Maternità

Intervengono
Melita Cavallo (già Presidente del Tribunale per i Minorenni Roma)
Adozione e affido oggi
Andrea Catizone (Avvocato, presidente di Family Smile)
Orientamenti italiani su minori
Sara Menichetti (Avvocato, esperta di diritto di famiglia)
Orientamenti europei su minori, adozioni e affido (CEDU-EDU)

Sabato 3 marzo - ore 10:00
Aula A, sezione di Storia Medievale, II piano della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia

Quarta sessione: Donne, Religioni e Maternità nel Sudasia

Coordina: Marianna Ferrara (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Intervengono:
Romina Rossi (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Madri impossibili: riflessioni a margine dei processi di istituzionalizzazione del “materno” nell’ideale hindu
Mara Matta (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Norma e/è dissenso: alcune riflessioni su maternità, culture e religioni in Asia meridionale
Guido Stanco (Sapienza Università di Roma),
Le principesse vedove: madri Sikh e la tragedia del 1984
Marianna Ferrara (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Da Sītā a Saritā: quando le madri della tradizione diventano “correnti” di pensiero

Nota Bene: le Sessioni Terza e Quarta sono in parallelo.

Sabato 3 marzo - ore 12:30
Aula A, sezione di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea, II piano della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia

Tavola Rotonda Conclusiva

Intervengono:
Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”)
Marianna Ferrara (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Leila Karami (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Segreteria organizzativa:
Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”)
Alessia Lirosi (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Comitato Scientifico
Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”)
Diego Cassano (Progetto Famiglia Minori Immigrazioni Tutele)
Marianna Ferrara (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Leila Karami (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Mara Matta (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Per informazioni:
Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”)
igorbaglioni79@gmail.com