A Response to Fatema Mernissi’s article “Digital Scheherazade; The Rise of Women as Key Players in the Arab Gulf Communication Strategies” by Brittany Smith
May 2011

One idea that was emphasized during the lecture portion of the “Gender and Arab Pro-Democracy Movements” event of the Global Women’s Health Project conference by both Manal Hamzeh and Dr. Young, was the idea of creating room for important and progressive conversations to occur. This concept was reinforced by the Global Café conversations that followed this presentation. The article by Fatema Mernissi, “Digital Scheherazde; The Rise of Women as Key Players in the Arab Gulf Communication Strategies” embodies and exemplifies this concept.

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Reflections on the Global Women’s History Project Presentation and Guest Lecture with Manal Hamzeh by Brittany Smith
May 2011

After spending a day participating in the events that were put together as part of the presentation by the Global Women’s History Project, I walked away with a lot of new knowledge, but this new knowledge was not what impacted me the most. What stayed with me well after the events and lectures were over was the new perspective that was introduced to me through these events. What are the underlying issues, especially with regards to gender, that influence and control our world around us. In the past I had always considered history from a surface, chronological point of view. What I left Manal’s lecture with was a desire to begin examining history at a deeper level than that surface level.

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Women In The Military by Kelsey McGuire.
November 25, 2008

As a part of my Middle Easten Studies class, we decided that we wanted to look into the treatment of Women in the Military.   This is a very broad category so we decided to narrow it down.   Recently there has been a lot of talk about how U.S. Women have been treated during the currant war. This war is something very close to home for many of us.   We then decided that looking into this could be very important. We discussed how we should go about this research project because it would require a lot of wok to be as in depth as we had hoped.  

My part of this in depth research project was to get in contact with people personally and interview them. These people include but are not limited to, people in military offices who hold reports about rapes, abuse, and other acquisitions made by women about unfair treatment while serving in the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, and women in the military, presently, or vets, who can be questioned about their time spent and feelings towards women's treatment in the military.  

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