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|| Kick-off of 2012-2013 training programme for cooperatives
Minister of
Agriculture, Dr. Hussein Hajj Hassan, launched the 2012-2013
training sessions for cooperatives during a formal ceremony held at
the Ministry of Agriculture premises on Monday October 1st. Read more
Facts
about women || The Pan-Arab Gathering on Rural Women and Food
Security
The Arab
Organization for Agricultural Development and the Arab Women
Organization organized in collaboration with the Ministry of
Agriculture a conference entitled “The pan-Arab gathering on rural
women and food security”. Read more
Articles||
Gender, disaster management and mitigation policies
On the occasion of
the international day for mitigating risks from disaster and which
was dedicated this year to gender equality, As Safir newspaper
published a report by Fadi Hamdan, director of the Centre for
Disaster Management, focusing on the gendered impact of risks
resulting from disasters. Read more
E-Library Spotlight
Reports || Disquiet and despair: the gender
sub-texts of the “Arab spring” || Deniz Kandiyoti
The extreme precariousness of women’s rights in
post- Arab spring successor regimes can neither be fully accounted
for with reference to the rise of politically empowered Islamist
parties nor attributed to some unqualified notion of misogyny, but
is determined by a complex combination of internal and external
influences.
Websites || Jadaliyya
Jadaliyya is an independent e-zine produced by the
Arab Studies Institute ASI. It provides a unique source of insight
and critical analysis that combines local knowledge, scholarship,
and advocacy with an eye to audiences in the United States,
the Arab world, and beyond. The site currently publishes posts in
both Arabic and English.
Jadaliyya is run and produced on a voluntary basis by an editorial
team and an expanding pool of contributors committed to discussing
the Arab world on its own terms.
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