Middle Eastern Women

In the 1950s, a newly married American woman named Elizabeth Warnock Fernea went to a new husband for two years at a small village El Nahra in southern Iraq. This book outlines her various experiences on urban social agenda, and her husband is an anthropologist who gathers data in the community. Her adjustment to the new environment was very difficult, because she lived in a mud house without an indoor pipe for running water and toilet, she was not used to that language and got accustomed to the local way It was not. life

When discussing the general problems facing women in the Middle East, they often lose the diversity of women's lifestyles and conditions. Westerners who are accustomed to stereotypes are told that women in the Middle East are passive and weak and constantly veiled. It is often said that Saudi Arabia's harsh conditions - women are not even allowed to drive a car - represent women's norms throughout the Middle East and the larger Muslim world. In fact, despite the reign of Afghanistan Taliban imitating the gender discrimination model of Saudi Arabia, the version that distinguishes Islam from gender in Saudi Arabia is quite unique in its rigor. Women are enjoying political and social rights in many Muslim countries and Egypt recently gave women the right to divorce with their husbands. In Tunisia, abortion is legal, polygamy is prohibited. Women serve as Ministers of Governments in Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and Tunisia and I am vice president of Iran

In the second part, I ask questions about what women's culture is in the Middle East and whether we need to save women. Here we explain the four issues that are the focus of Western media on women's culture in the Middle East. These include: swords gauze or scarf; men have the right to marry 4 wives; social division of labor based on gender; and women in the Middle East are saved from oppressive culture. In the last part, I will ask about who "other" is and how to handle it. I easily define the mysterious "other" - the term Sayed is used to refer to eastern culture - and you can see Middle Eastern culture, not Hollywood distortion, and saturate American society We can offer alternative lenses. Biased media