Opening session / Séance d’ouverture du colloque

Presentations
Dr Carol Mann, Founder-Director of Women in War, Paris
Dr Evelyne Accad, co-Director of Beit El Hanane, Beirut

Keynote Speech 1
Dr. Nawal El-Saadawi (Egypt) Founder  of  The  Arab  Women‘s  Solidarity  Association, (Egypt): War, Women  and  Revolution (in Arabic, text in English)

Keynote Speech 2:

Professor Valentine Moghadam (Northeastern University, USA)

Gender and Armed Conflict

Moderator: Dr. Carol Mann, Director of Women in War, Paris.

– Gendered Borders and the Arab Uprisings, Dr. Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss, Lebanese American University (Lebanon-USA)

– Gender and the Globalization of War, Dr. Awatef Ketiti, University of Valencia , spoken in English but text in Spanish (Spain)

– Gender Reforms and Anti-Colonial Peace-building, Maliha Chishti, Former Director of the Hague Appeal for Peace (Canada)

– Quel avenir pour les femmes sous l’emprise de l’Islam radical, Dr. Khadija Arfaoui, University of Tunis (Tunisia)

Session on Lebanon: Women, War, and Displacement

Moderator: Dr. Evelyne Accad (University of Illinois)

– “J’ai déposé les armes”, Régine Sneifer, writer, (Lebanon)

– The Persistence of Gendered Narratives in Times of War & Displacement : Syrian Women Refugees in Lebanese Public Discourse, Adriana Qubaia, Central European University (Hungary)

– A Personal Testimony: The Lebanese War and how it scarred me, Tracy Chamoun (Lebanon)

– The Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis on Lebanese Host Communities’ Security Perceptions Across the Country: A Gendered Angle, Lana Khattab, International Alert (UK)

Radicalism: The Many Faces of Religious Extremism

Moderator: Dr. Sami Baroudi, Lebanese American University (Lebanon)

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– From Comrades to Casualties: Women, Transformation, and Conflict in the North Caucasus, Khalida Nurmetova, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany-Azerbaidjan)

On Yazidi Women, Dr llham Hammadi, (University of Saint-Joseph Beirut)

– Femmes françaises djihadistes en Syrie et en Irak: Professor Armelle Le Bras-Chopard, Université de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines (France)

Fundamentalism: Its Many Facets and Faces

Moderator: Alia Ibrahim, Al-Arabiya News (Lebanon)

– The Psychology of Terror and the active Role of Women Within it, Professor Hussain Shara, Mutah University (Jordan)

– Quelle Révolution pour les Femmes Tunisiennes: Printemps Féministe ou Hiver Islamiste, Dr Najet Limam-Tnani, Faculty of Humanities (Tunisia)

– Islamic Feminism in Iraq Nahla Al Nadawi, University of Bagdad (Iraq)

– Femmes Africaines et Fondamentalisme (Boko Haram au Nigeria, Ansar Dine et Mujao au Mali), Professor Catherine Vidrovitch, University Paris Diderot (France)

Part I. The Decentering of the Intimate Sphere

Moderator: Dr. Azza Sharara Beydoun, Lebanese University & Bahithat (Lebanon)

– Temporary Marriage in Sunni and Shia Islam: Comparative Case Studies of Iran and Egypt after the Arab Spring, Dr. Atieh Asgharzadeh, CADIS (France-Iran)

– La condition de la femme syrienne après le printemps arabe, Dr. Afraa Ismael, Tishreen University (Syria)

– Women in Libya: The Ongoing Armed Conflict, Political Instability and Radicalization, Asma Khalifa, Hacettepe University (Turkey)

– Addressing the Needs and Supporting the Roles of Widow Victims of the Conflicts in the Middle East, Dr. Margaret Owen, Widows for Peace (UK)

Part 2: Female Fighters During Armed Conflicts

Moderator: Dr. Samira Aghacy, Director, IWSAW, Lebanese American University

– The Women’s Revolution in Rojava, Meral Cicek, Kurdish Women’s Relations Office REPAK (Kurdistan/ Rojava)

– Women as Active Participants in Armed Conflict: Muslim and Non-Muslim Female Suicide Bombers, Dr. Joseph Alagha, Haigazian University (Lebanon)

– Forgotten Actors? Women-Soldiers in a Comparative Perspective (the cases from Armenian-Azerbaijani Armed Conflict for Karabakh and PKK Movement), Dr. Nona Shahnazaryan, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan (Armenia)

Part I Displacement Through Occupation or Exile  

Moderator: Dr. Samira Aghacy, Director of IWSAW

Palestinian and Kurdish Women in Occupied Areas, Conflict or Post-Conflict Areas in Different Countries in the Middle East, Maria Hagberg, Lund University (Sweden)

-The Kurdish Women’s Movement: Challenging Gendered Militarization and the Nation-State, Meral Duzgun, University of Westminster (U.K.)

– Syrian Women and LGBTI Refugees in Istanbul: In the Middle of Legal and Structural Violence, Dr. Zeynep Kivilcim, Istanbul University (Turkey)

– Gender, Conflict and Development in Yemen, Dr. Connie Christiansen, University of Roskilde (Denmark)

Part 2:   Sexual Violence in Conflict

Moderator: Ghida Anani, Director, ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender (Lebanon)

– Gender-Based Violence: Rape as Weapon of War, Maitre Lydia Farah, AUB (Lebanon)

– I Will Teach My Daughter How She Can Defend Herself: Fighting Back Against Street Sexual Harassment and Assault in Post-Revolution Egypt, Susana Galan, Rutgers University (USA)

– Blood, Bodies, and Violence: Women’s Bodily Experiences and Symbolic Meaning in the Egyptian Arab Spring, Katherine Van Den Bogert, Utrecht University (the Netherlands)

– De la femme kamikaze au djihad du sexe: Une guerre faite sur le corps des femmes, Dr. Iqbàl Al-Gharbi, University of Zeytouna (Tunisia)

Cyberactivism and Journalism                   

Moderator: Diana Mukalled, Asharq Al-Awsat (Lebanon)

– Digital Activism for Women’s Rights in the Arab World, Aline Sara, journalist and researcher (USA)

Women’s Digital Activism and the Changing Nature of Politics in the Middle East, Professor Annabelle Sreberny, SOAS (UK)

– Women, War and the Media: Women’s Online Activism and the Gender Digital Divide, Samina Kabir SOAS (UK- Afghanistan)

– The One Percent Syrian Women in Media and Journalism, Reem Maghribi, Director of Sharq CIC (Lebanon)

Creativity in Times of Conflict

Moderator: Emilie Mansour, Sorbonne Nouvelle (France)

– Writing for Gaza Textual (Dis)Embodiment, Dissident Creativity and Social Justice in Arab Women’s Writing, Dr. Brinda Mehta, Mills College (USA)

– Sawtuha ‘ali min Zaman: Arab Female Musicians’ Collaborative Revolution, Alejandra Aguero and Angela Williams, University of Illinois (USA)

– Representing Violence Against Women Since 2012, Dr. Miriam Cooke, Duke University (USA)

– Song and Survival for Syrian Women and Children Living as Refugees in Northern Jordan, Karen Boswall, SOAS (UK)

Not filmed but text available: Abounaddara, le cinéma pour réinventer la Syrie Chourouq Nasri, University of Mohammed I (Morocco) 

Legal Accountability, International Instruments, and Peace-Building

Moderator: Former Minister Wafa Dika Hamzeh (Lebanon)

– On Legal Accountability and Peace-Building Initiatives in Egypt, Ambassador Moushira Khattab (Egypt)

– Legal Accountability for Sexual Violence in Syria: Taking Charge of Future Prosecution, Aarif Abraham, International Legal Accountability Unit (UK)

– Violence, War and Accountability: Gendered and Sexualized Dynamics of the 2014 Israeli Assault on Gaza, Dr. Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University (USA)