Launching the Women’s Studies Network program and the accompanying international discussion seminar entitled “Rethinking Arab Feminism between Epistemological Discourse and Struggling Action”

The Women’s Studies Network “Sun” organized the accompanying international discussion seminar under the title “Rethinking Arab Feminism between Epistemological Discourse and Struggling Work” and launched the Women’s Studies Network program from Lebanon in partnership with the Basma International Group and in cooperation with the Institute of Social Sciences at the Lebanese University, the Lebanese Sociological Society, and the Lebanese Sociological Center. Women’s studies at the University of Jordan and the Religion and Society Laboratory at the University of Algiers 2, in the presence of scientific institutions and organizations active in bitter issues that are members of the network.The episode witnessed a broad discussion, including the presentation of five interventions and comments from male and female researchers from different Arab countries, addressing the most important challenges and epistemological stakes that constitute the priorities of the Women’s Studies Network, reconsidering Arab feminist discourses, and linking the issue of women to the crisis of citizenship in the Arab world today, based on monitoring the epistemological debate about feminist writings; Following up on women’s societal struggles at the field level; And anticipating public policies at the institutional level by returning to thinking about the issue of gender and its interpretations in the Arab context today and examining some academic experiences through it.Theoretically and in the field, about gender, to know the limits of the systematic use of this concept in analyzing, understanding, and discussing women’s struggle experiences in demanding citizenship rights in a crisis cultural context dominated by dominant masculine traditions, to work to bridge the gap between feminism as academic knowledge that constantly re-questions its contents, and feminism as a combative discourse and action. Socially, it has its own means, which also require continuous review according to different contexts and actors.