In this section you will find publications, events, good practices, learning activities and resource people in relation to fighting gender and cultural stereotyping in the EuroMed region.
The current study investigated the role of women as represented in preschool textbooks in Morocco. To this end, we have carried out a content analysis on the images representing female figures from 5 publishers (N = 2789 images, N = 95 books). The expectation...
The Intercultural Trends Report of the Anna Lindh Foundation, established in 2010, represents a landmark study in cross-cultural trends and social change across Europe and the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. The Report, entering its third edition in 2018, is...
This paper focuses on the circulation of long-feature films by women filmmakers produced with Moroccan, Algerian or Tunisian funding, a purposefully small corpus of about 50 films produced over 35 years that raises questions of gender, the national, but also...
The International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) is the largest multi-country study of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa. Coordinated by Promundo and UN Women, in collaboration with local research partners, the report takes a never-before-seen...
This book looks with hindsight at the Arab Spring and sheds light on the debates it triggered within North African societies and the alarming developments in women’s rights. Although women played a key role in the success of the uprisings...
This analysis presents 12 successful practices in advocacy and policy dialogue pertaining to gender equality, developed in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The 12 practices have been selected through a call for proposal for the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to submit an...
This study illuminates the ways in which men and women consume soap operas as a means of reflecting on and discussing sociocultural taboos. Through interpretive research we examine the ways in which religion, sexuality and gender relations are depicted in...
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...