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In this article, we explore the effects that Tunisia’s post-revolutionary democratization process has had on the right to abortion, drawing on ethnographic material, interviews, and medical files that we collected...

Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. Why does counter-mobilization arise in...

This report documents and analyzes two recent major reforms in Lebanese law whose purpose is to further gender equality for women in Lebanon: (I) the alteration of the Sunni personal...

The project Women’s Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco,...

årets fredsprisvinner, den Tunisiske kvartetten for Nasjonal Dialog har fått prisen for sitt demokratiseringsarbeid etter den arabiske våren. Ikke minst har de utmerket seg gjennom bidraget med å få i...

The Arab Spring represents a tectonic shift in Middle East from austere authoritarianism to opening the space for long repressed Islamist movements to seek elected office and political power. Examining...

Hopes were high that the uprisings that began in 2011 across the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) that have come to be known as “the Arab Spring” would bring...

Regimet i Sudan har fulgt den arabiske våren med argusøyne. President Omar al-Bashir frykter smitteeffekten. Nå truer en økonomi i fritt fall med å velte regimet. Prisene på drivstoff og...

Regimet i Sudan har fulgt den arabiske våren med argusøyne. President Omar al-Bashir frykter smitteeffekten. Nå truer en økonomi i fritt fall med å velte regimet. Prisene på drivstoff og...

Recent high-profile cases have focused attention on the transfer of assets abroad by heads of state and other senior officials from developing countries in amounts that far exceed their legitimate...

Da Sultan Qaboos av Oman i 1970 kastet sin far i et kupp, var landet fattig, isolert og hadde tre kilometer asfaltert vei. I morgen står Sultan Qaboos på gjestelisten...

Karikaturtegningene av Muhammed har skapt debatt i norske medier. Denne debatten har blant annet omhandlet islam og hvorvidt denne religionen utgjør en trussel mot vår sivilisasjon. I programmet Tabloid i...

Det demokratiske underskuddet i Midt-østen og Nord-Afrika er slående. Mange vil hevde at «islam har skylden», da islam i litteraturen ofte brukes som en generell og lite opplysende forklaringsfaktor for...

My focus of analysis is Islamist democracy as conceived by the Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi. I aim to explore and understand Turabi's concept of democracy and study the roots of...

The study focuses on the Tunisian post-colonial process of modernization and its effects on Tunisians of different generations, gender, and educational backgrounds. Interviews with illiterates as well as university graduates...