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Women and religions in the Mediterranean

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By: Genevieve Delrue

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World Religions - Sunday, May 22, 2022 - 11:10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Paris time)

Between a patriarchal cultural heritage and a discriminatory reading towards them, women around the Mediterranean must clear a path of emancipation and equality.

held at

concluded two years of interdisciplinary meetings on current developments in the religious field and in civil society.

This seminar of the Bernardins Research Center was held under the co-direction of

(EPHE-PSL), the Dominican brother 

(Luxembourg School of Religion & Society) and

, former French Ambassador to Israel.

It is the rise of religious feminism and mainly of Islamic feminism which is the major fact of these last decades.

The question is whether this religious feminism constitutes an effective lever for the construction of an egalitarian society between men and women. 

In this report, we will hear from the following researchers:

on the status of women in Morocco; 

on secular, secular and Islamic feminism in the Maghreb; 

on the demands in Israel of women from the ultra-Orthodox Haredi community who want to participate in political life; 

who broadens the discussion on gender discrimination to that of religious minorities in Islamic lands and

on honor killings in Jordan and Egypt. 

Enriching the reflection of this conference, the biography of

published in 2019 by

.

Its author

is our guest.

Back with the former editor of Le Monde on the promulgation in 1956 by Bourguiba of the personal status code, a revolution for Tunisian society. 

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