BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:32024@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240125T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240125T170000 DTSTAMP:20240108T153036Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/the-future-is-feminist-women-and-so cial-change-in-interwar-algeria/ SUMMARY:The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria DESCRIPTION:The Future Is Feminist by Sara Rahnama offers a closer look at a pivotal moment in Algerian history when Algerians looked to feminism as a path out of the stifling realities of French colonial rule. Algerian p eople focused outward to developments in the Middle East\, looking critica lly at their own society and with new eyes to Islamic tradition. In doing so\, they reordered the world on their own terms—pushing back against Fr ench colonial claims about Islam's inherent misogyny.\n\n \;\n\nFeatur ing: Dr. Sara Rahnama: is an Assistant Professor of History at Morgan Sta te University and the author of The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria (Cornell University Press). The Future is Fem inist examines how commentators saw women’s advancement as key to a pro sperous and modern future for Algeria. At Morgan State\, she directs the P rogram for the Study of the Middle East &\; North Africa\, the first Mi ddle East Studies program at an HBCU. Her writing has appeared in both aca demic and popular spaces\, including Gender &\; History and The Wash ington Post. She was formerly a fellow at the Library of Congress’s Klu ge Center.Dr. Elizabeth F. Thompson: is a historian of social movements an d liberal constitutionalism in the Middle East\, with a focus on how race and gender relations have been conditioned by foreign intervention and int ernational law. She recently published her third book: How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance (Atlantic Monthly Press\, 2020). It explores how and why Arabs gathered in Damascus after World War I to estab lish a democratic regime\, in contrast to the prevalence of authoritarian- nationalist regimes established elsewhere in the lands of the defeated Ott oman and Habsburg Empires. The book also considers the long-term\, negativ e consequences of the destruction of the Arab democracy\, authorized by th e Paris Peace Conference and enforced by the new League of Nations. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR