Understanding the complexities of Arab politics, history, and culture has never been more important for North American readers. Yet even as Arabic literature is increasingly being translated into English, the modern Arabic literary tradition is still often treated as other—controversial...
In Arab Mediterranean countries (AMCs), insecurities and a lack of opportunities have continuously kept young people from becoming independent and being full, active, and integrated members of society; a process commonly referred to as social exclusion. This paper explores the...
Drawing on research on narrative theory (Baker, 2006, 2014) in translation and interpretation studies, on the interdisciplinary relationship between translation studies and the visual and performing arts, and on the principal diversities between media discourse representations and aesthetic constructions on...
Abstract: This article’s reading of Paolo Portoghesi’s and Sami Mousawi’s Mosque and Islamic Centre in Rome (1975–95) offers an understanding of its visual program as one that can be productively framed under the concept of diaspora, a condition that evokes...
Concerns about immigration are salient in the European Union and in Malta in particular. Previous research has demonstrated deep antipathy towards the Arab community in Malta, and social representations of Arabs are mired in a conflation of ethnic and religious...
The aim of this paper is to provide recommendations to the Youth Partnership between the European Commission (EC) and the Council of Europe in the field of youth policy through listening and learning from the experiences of the youth in...
Professor, emeritus of Peace and Conflict Research and former Director of TAPRI, Tampere Peace Research Institute, at the Tampere University. With a Doctoral degree in political science, Tuomo Melasuo is also Docent in Political History at the University of Turku...
This report offers a “map” of the diverse situations of women in the post-2011 MENA region. It shows that there have been tremendous achievements and improvements in the lives of women in health and education but less progress in employment...
Arab armed forces are recruiting more females, who nevertheless continue to face a glass ceiling.
This paper aims to attempt to collate and understand the fragmented research on female entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The review assesses the literature at the macro, meso and micro analysis levels and addresses the obstacles...