‘The Uneasy Encounter with Islamic Feminism’ Discussion

While Islam is variably one of the most enduring and active cultural, political and legislative constituents in defining the social and legal positions of women in the region, trends in Islamic feminism have in the past few decades presented a view about solving women’s problems that would necessitate a reform in the Islamic institution instead of totally denouncing it.

Beirut Art Center will host a public conversation with Lawyer Nayla Geagea, Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini (via skype) and Ayat Noureddine, that will place the question of women’s rights in Lebanon within the theoretical, Linguistic and legal argumentation of Islamic feminists as well as from the point of view of legal activists in secular and civil organization working on changing laws of nationality, domestic violence and others such as divorce and child custody.