The definitive guide to understanding Arab culture for three decades. For nearly three
decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr …

African women's history is a vast topic that embraces a wide variety of societies in over 50
countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations …

Scholarship on gendered political inequality after war pays surprisingly little attention to an
otherwise ubiquitous concept in feminist security studies: militarized masculinities. Through …

Human capital in general spurs economic growth. Female human capital in terms of
education and health in particular is important for economic growth in countries where …

This report is an assessment of the state of the literature on gender and peacebuilding and
statebuilding, which are fairly new areas of research, particularly the latter. This assessment …

This chapter explores how women's rights and obligations are understood and negotiated
within the context of an Islamic state in Sudan. It particularly deals with the ongoing debate …

Abstract In 2015 Saudi Arabian women were for the first time in history granted political
space through electoral suffrage. To evaluate whether the new political opening for Saudi …

The claim that women are half the sky is more than a cliché when it comes to real political
representation and rendering true women agency. Ethiopia has embarked on the …

Social marketing campaigns (SMCs) have gained prominence in female genital
mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) abandonment efforts, but there is a dearth of information on how …