The Women’s Studies Network at the International Network for the Study of Arab Societies organized a virtual international symposium entitled “Is there a need to renew the Arab feminist discourse?” In partnership with the Center for Women’s Studies at the University of Jordan and in cooperation with the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization – ALECSO on March 27, 2022. The symposium witnessed two sessions, six interventions, and comments from male and female researchers from different Arab countries.The symposium focused on criticizing, reviewing and evaluating Arab feminist knowledge production among Arab researchers, especially in light of the transformations brought about by the Arab Spring in some Arab countries. The participants considered that the decline in the gains of the feminist movement was caused by the emergence of political actors opposed to the feminist movement and who doubted its effectiveness and sometimes even criminalized it. The symposium concluded with the necessity of renewing Arab feminist discourses in particular, and moving to the discourse of citizenship, justice, democracy, and liberating the Arab person from the dominance of the patriarchal system in general, as it is the root of the issue.
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