Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Eleanor Abdella Doumato

Eleanor Abdella Doumato is adjunct research professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and the author Getting God's Ear: Women, Religion and Healing in Early 20th Century Arabia (New York: Columbia University

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Economic Restructuring in the Middle East

The effect of economic restructuring on women was the focus of a two-day workshop at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies in 1998, entitled “Women and Economic Restructuring in the Middle East: Gender, Jobs and Activist Organizations.” Participants [1] agreed that restructur

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Women and the Stability of Saudi Arabia

On November 6, 1990, some 50 women met in a supermarket parking lot in Riyadh. The women dismissed their drivers and drove their cars in tandem through the streets of Riyadh, defying publicly an unofficial but strictly observed ban on women’s driving. In Saudi Arabia, where women may not travel with

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