Women Of The Middle Eastern Countries

Accustomed to stereotypical depictions, Westerners are told that Middle Eastern women are passive, weak, and always veiled. It is often assumed that the severe conditions in Saudi Arabia—where women are not even allowed to drive cars—represent the norm for women throughout the Middle East and in the larger Muslim world. In reality, Saudi Arabia’s versions of both Islam and sexism are rather unique in their severities, although the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan is now emulating the sexist Saudi model. Women enjoy political and social rights in many Muslim countries, and Egypt has recently granted women the right to divorce their husbands. In Tunisia, abortion is legal, and polygamy is prohibited. Women have served as ministers in the Syrian, Jordanian, Egyptian, Iraqi, and Tunisian governments, and as Vice President in Iran.

In the Middle East there are many restrictions against women. However there are people who are fighting to support women or others who just do care about the women well beings. We might not see that there are many injustices committed every day and every time, because we just do not hear about it or we do not take the time to realize what is really surrounding us. People had various reactions against the government. For example we saw many who had solidarity for women, and others who decided to only complain about why women should be treated as second class. I believe that we actually need to take the time to learn about what is really happening in the world. Personally, I say this because I also had no idea what was injustices

This research will demonstrate the concept of Quebec majority versus the ones that are considered "other" or minority, specifically Muslim women. The methodologies and surrounding utilized by the print media along with the specific scope of specific issues created polarization amongst minority and greater part gathers. This research will summon an Orientalist focal point to show how racializing talks are portrayed in a monitored subtext over and the news print to support the protection of Quebec character. The strategy that is utilized is the basic analysis of two newspaper articles that are reflected from Gazette and Lap Presse. This examination aims to identify the importance of the representations of Muslim women in the specific recorded understanding of Quebecois in their particular dialect and culture. This essay will reveal that portion of the media procedures within the Quebec context. This will exhibit that Muslim women are minimized and victimized on the premise of their race, sexual orientation and social character. Revealing that the news print media makes harming depictions of Muslim women. The end goal is to counter these negative depictions. Individuals must be instructed how to think fundamentally about the media and build up the fitting media education ways so that they can comprehend what social value are implied.

Between 500 CE and 1450 CE, elements of women’s roles in the Middle East were changing while others remained the same for over 900 years. The duties women filled in society remained constant through the years. Changing, though, was the decline of social importance of women and a degradation of their rights.

Sadly, many countries and/or communities still have that macho way of thinking, believing that a woman only has two jobs in life, serve her family and bear children. Unfortunately, in many cases, these women are being mistreated, beaten and/or shut down. We can see examples of these situations in some countries of the Middle East.

All societies in all times and places have their black sheep, “charlatans” such as fake priests, palm readers, and others that do everything to get their words, their own beliefs across to people. They compose a special speeches, performances or write texts based on their beliefs and their great powers given to them by the divine, that are specially designed to manufacture the consent of the people. In some parts of the world, people are born with more authority over others, for instance, kings, people with political power, wealth and dominant gender. According to Craig Martin, these acts are almost always linked to locally authoritative figures, texts and symbols which help gain authority and power to those without it (117). For example, within pre-Islamic Arabia women were accepted as possessions than as human beings of their male husbands that had authority over them.

In other denominations such as the Protestant Church, women have had the choice of ordination since the 20th century. Numbers of women becoming ordained are continuing to rise in the Protestant Church and other churches that allow it such as The American Baptist Church, Assemblies of God, Christian Science, and The Episcopal Church.

All throughout history men have been superior over women. Islam wasn’t any different in that aspect, though Muhammad said men and women were created equal. The Islamic men were known to be great scholars of mathematics, astrology, medicine, and of natural sciences. They were also known to have made great architectural structures and displayed beautiful pieces of artwork throughout the buildings and all throughout the civilization of the Islamic people. It’s fair to ask, did the women have any part of the artistic beauty and structures displayed in Islam, or was it only the men who were granted the privilege to make such advanced and beautiful structures and art within the Islamic world during the early periods.

Throughout this passage, I will compile how the scholars of the Arabo-Islamic sources, dating from the 8th century to the 11 century, portrayed the others [ Non-Muslim] through the notion of stereotyping, and thus composing exclusivist prejudices on the other communities, rather than looking at the pluralistic-common things that both cultures rendered. In Ibn Fadlan’s expedition source, he called the Rus, “the Russian,” who were encamping on the side of the Itil river, “God’s dirtiest creatures on earth.” Relying his rhetoric on their communal- hygienic traits in washing, eating, or even after reaching their sexual enticement (orgasm). Correspondingly, various Arabo-Islamic chronicles manifested the Byzantine women only via the institution of concubinage, in which Nadia el-Cheikh responds: Most of the Arabo-Islamic sources, dating from the 8th century to the 11 century, were all written by men who failed in taking the accounts of women different roles in society. Leaving, thus, an inadequate record of women’s past.

All over the world women are fighting for equal rights by writing, protesting, chanting and much more. All of these different forms of protests are shining a light on the increasing amount of sexual assault happening in different countries around the world. In the recent decade, the Middle East has come in and out of the news for the lack of progressive laws concerning women’s rights. They have also gotten attention for all the revolts that seem to be taking place there. These revolutions may seem old and out of date but one is going on right now. With only spray paint and hopes for a better future, Egyptian women have broken their silence concerning equal rights and sexual harassment. I believe this movement is the first of its kind and this rise of women is more powerful than any past attempts in Egypt.

People across the world need to work together as a planet now more than ever to take on climate change, corruption, economic justice, for-profit wars, and the refugee crises that these other problems create. We must work together to ensure healthcare for all, clean water and food for all, and a peaceful and healthy environment that all can live in. A world in which all have clean water, healthy food, and peace is a world with little terrorism and few refugees. Human beings generally prefer to live out their lives peacefully in the culture in which they grew

One of the Middle Eastern Countries I researched was Iran. Iran went from being a country with strong women activists and leaders to being viewed and treated with far less worth than a man. Litchter writes, “The murder of a man was regarded as a capital offense, whereas the killing of a woman was not afforded the same serious status. The punishments for murderers were divided according to the sex of the perpetrator. Execution was the inevitable end for a female killer, whereas a male murderer was given the alternative of paying diyya (blood money) to the next of kin of his victim” (Lichter, 2009). Seeing these changes is a travesty. There are so many misconceptions about Islam and Muslim women, many coming from these drastic changes that the

“Worldwide, women remain disadvantaged relative to men. In developing countries, women typically have higher mortality rates, particularly in infancy, in early childhood, and in the reproductive ages (the “missing women” syndrome); lower levels of education and literacy; and lower pay in formal employment.”

The topic of this paper will focus on the women in Saudi Arabia. This topic is not only interesting and timely; it shows that even the countries whose economy is highly developed, can still have problems within the country. Saudi Arabia may be a paradise and an attraction for many people to live in because of its economic stability and its high living standards, it is also a nightmare for many of the women who live there with no rights. Saudi Arabia is a prime example of how some countries still deprive women of their basic rights, and treat them in a way that is inferior to men. Although Saudi Arabia is being run on the basis of the Islamic Shariaa law, it goes beyond what Islam says and it deprives women of their autonomy.

Afshan Jafar claims that the position of women in Pakistan is the product of specific, historical, political and cultural forces (53). In this paper, we will examine the historical and contemporary cultural and political forces that influence women in Pakistan. Particular attention will be given to the influence of General Zia al Haq on women's rights; this will be illustrated by examining Pakistani government policies on women before, during, and after his rule. The historical and contemporary cultural and political forces are different in the influence on women. In the past, Pakistani women were generally limited, but more respected at home. This is a significant change compared to the public degrading that they faced during and after