By Fatima Sadiqi
Centering on women's routine earlier than, in the course of, and after the revolutions, Women's activities in Post-"Arab Spring" North Africa highlights the wider resources of authority that affected the emergence of latest feminist actors and brokers and their effect at the sociopolitical landscapes of the zone.
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Further, it was the protest culture that secular women’s activists instilled in the 21 Hanne Petersen (personal communication). 28 Women’s Movements in Post-“Arab Spring” North Africa public sphere that opened the door to large-scale demonstrations both in support of or against women’s rights, as in the 2000 Rabat and Casablanca marches, respectively. Indeed, more generally, the physical/virtual networking between civil society associations (including the feminine and feminist ones) have greatly facilitated the recent protests in Morocco and beyond.
18 In order to understand the protest-laden, post-revolution Center, a conceptualization of the notion of protest is needed. Conceptualization of the Notion of Protest The emerging Center is a middle ground between the secularist and Islamist trends in Morocco and a new space of protest. Although the non-homogeneity of their protestors and their demands is a threat to something like the Center, the space, once created, is irreversible and will have permanent effects even if tensions break it apart.
The strategy, he explains, is to expel women from public places. As I will argue shortly, such scare tactics have not worked. 7 Elisabeth Flock “Women in the Arab Spring: the other side of the story,” Washington Post June 21, 2011. ” In Rustum, M. “Huquq al-nisa? fi Suriya qabla wa athna’ al-thawra: khitab wa haqiqa,” May 2014, 16. net/Hivos-Knowledge-Programme/Themes/Civil-Society-in-West-Asia/ node_8905/node_31181 (accessed June 9, 2014). 9 Founded in 2010, HarassMap is an organization dedicated to ending “the social acceptability of sexual harassment and assault in Egypt” (available from: http://harassmap.