<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=4>From Fatima Sadiqi (<A href="http://fr.mc267.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sadiqi_fatima@yahoo.fr" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:sadiqi_fatima@yahoo.fr">sadiqi_fatima@yahoo.fr</A>)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=4>Dear Friends and Colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=4>Moha Ennaji and I are very pleased to announce that Routledge has just published our edited volume <EM>Gender and Violence in the Middle East</EM>. Here is a short description. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size=4>This book explores the relationship between Islamism, secularism and violence against women in the Middle East and North Africa. Drawing on case studies from across the region, the authors examine the historical, cultural, religious, social, legal and political factors affecting this key issue. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size=4>Chapters by established scholars from within and outside the region highlight:</FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size=4>the interconnections of violence and various sources of power in the Middle East: the state, society, and the family </FONT>
<LI><FONT face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size=4>conceptions of violence as family and social practice and dominant discourse </FONT>
<LI><FONT face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size=4>the role of violence as pattern for social structuring in the nation state.</FONT></LI></DIV></UL>
<DIV><FONT face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size=4>By centring the chapters around these key areas, the volume provides an innovative theoretical and systematic research model for gender and violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Dealing with issues that are not easily accessible in the West, this book underlines the importance of understanding realities and problems relevant to Muslim and Arab societies and discusses possible ways of promoting reforms in the MENA region. As such it will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies, sociology, political science and criminal justice.</FONT><BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#5b5b5b size=2>Fatima Sadiqi </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#5b5b5b size=2>Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies (MA, PhD)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#5b5b5b size=2>Co-Founder of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures (INLAC), Fez, Morocco </FONT><A href="http://www.inlac.net/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#5b5b5b size=2>www.inlac.net</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#5b5b5b size=2>Director of the Isis Center for Women and Development</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#5b5b5b size=2>UN Gender Expert</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#5b5b5b>President of the National Union of Women's Organizations </FONT><A href="http://www.nuwo.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#5b5b5b>www.nuwo.org</FONT></A></FONT></DIV>
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