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As time goes by, wars emerge and the flux of refugees increases. The refugee status is a vicious ... more As time goes by, wars emerge and the flux of refugees increases. The refugee status is a vicious circle where people find themselves fleeing from a country and looking for refuge in another, hoping to find a final solution. The Palestinian refugee issue is one of the longest crisis in the world, which has been ongoing for almost seventy years with no solution in sight. While some scholars have analysed the issue from a legal perspective and others from a human rights' aspect, this study will consider both perspectives to discuss and argue the reasons for grating citizenship as the best temporary solution. This study will consider the special category in which they are, and it will be given an explanation about the differences similitudes between nationality and citizenship. Moreover, it will look at the evolution of the Palestinian nationality from the Ottoman Empire until today. It will breakdown the international and regional treaties that protect and provide for the right to ...
The role of women in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East has undergone a profound transformati... more The role of women in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East has undergone a profound transformation. Since the recognition of Egyptian women's suffrage in 1956 to the present, the Arab Spring has played an important role and has resulted in significant progress regarding women's rights. However, expectations were too high that women's rights in the Arab world would receive greater attention following the 2011 Revolution. Regretfully, the transformations suffered by each country in the region suggested otherwise. Egypt ranked as the worst Arab country for women, particularly since the ascent to power of the Muslim Brotherhood in June 2012 until today; a number of national laws containing provisions on women's rights legislations were revised and concrete steps were taken to repeal certain family laws that were regarded as major successes for women's rights in Egypt. This paper will explore the different situations as experienced in Egypt and the evolution of some women's rights in Egypt. The global conception of gender equality has been somehow conceived as an idea imported from the West putting at risk the patriarchal structure and imposing 'Western values' on non-Western cultures, thus ignoring the fact that most of those who were on the streets claiming for more rights were the mostly ‘Eastern-minded’ women whose demands did not correspond to the Western-like expected vindications.
As time goes by, wars emerge and the flux of refugees increases. The refugee status is a vicious ... more As time goes by, wars emerge and the flux of refugees increases. The refugee status is a vicious circle where people find themselves fleeing from a country and looking for refuge in another, hoping to find a final solution. The Palestinian refugee issue is one of the longest crisis in the world, which has been ongoing for almost seventy years with no solution in sight. While some scholars have analysed the issue from a legal perspective and others from a human rights' aspect, this study will consider both perspectives to discuss and argue the reasons for grating citizenship as the best temporary solution. This study will consider the special category in which they are, and it will be given an explanation about the differences similitudes between nationality and citizenship. Moreover, it will look at the evolution of the Palestinian nationality from the Ottoman Empire until today. It will breakdown the international and regional treaties that protect and provide for the right to ...
The role of women in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East has undergone a profound transformati... more The role of women in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East has undergone a profound transformation. Since the recognition of Egyptian women's suffrage in 1956 to the present, the Arab Spring has played an important role and has resulted in significant progress regarding women's rights. However, expectations were too high that women's rights in the Arab world would receive greater attention following the 2011 Revolution. Regretfully, the transformations suffered by each country in the region suggested otherwise. Egypt ranked as the worst Arab country for women, particularly since the ascent to power of the Muslim Brotherhood in June 2012 until today; a number of national laws containing provisions on women's rights legislations were revised and concrete steps were taken to repeal certain family laws that were regarded as major successes for women's rights in Egypt. This paper will explore the different situations as experienced in Egypt and the evolution of some women's rights in Egypt. The global conception of gender equality has been somehow conceived as an idea imported from the West putting at risk the patriarchal structure and imposing 'Western values' on non-Western cultures, thus ignoring the fact that most of those who were on the streets claiming for more rights were the mostly ‘Eastern-minded’ women whose demands did not correspond to the Western-like expected vindications.