Laila Prager
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JProf. Dr. Laila Prager
Institut für Ethnologie
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügelbau West (ESA W)
20146 Hamburg
http://www.ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/de/personen/laila-prager.html
Phone: Tel.: +49 40 42838-4184 Fax: +49 40 42838-6288
Address: http://www.ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/de/personen/laila-prager.html
JProf. Dr. Laila Prager
Institut für Ethnologie
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügelbau West (ESA W)
20146 Hamburg
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Keywords:
United Arab Emirates, female leadership, women empowerment, GCC countries, state feminism, Cultural Sector, Patriarchy
Moreover, the paper explores to what extent the musalsalat have become markers of tribal identity and memory, thereby mirroring competing perspectives on 'authenticity' and historical 'truth'. Finally, the Bedouin soap operas are contextualised within the overarching discourse on the revival of cultural heritage that is increasingly gaining prominence in many countries of the Arab world.
Keywords:
United Arab Emirates, female leadership, women empowerment, GCC countries, state feminism, Cultural Sector, Patriarchy
Moreover, the paper explores to what extent the musalsalat have become markers of tribal identity and memory, thereby mirroring competing perspectives on 'authenticity' and historical 'truth'. Finally, the Bedouin soap operas are contextualised within the overarching discourse on the revival of cultural heritage that is increasingly gaining prominence in many countries of the Arab world.
Beyond this discourse on women leadership, however, Emirati women’s everyday lives - its diversities, creativities, and confines - are rarely discussed in public. Moreover, research on Emirati women is still rather scarce. The few existing monographs center exclusively on topics relating to education, women’s segregation, and the emergence of the major women’s organizations and unions. Up to the present, however, basic information on Emirati women’s lives, their socio-economic milieus, their intra- and extra family networks, their aspirations and restrictions, is still lacking. Likewise, data on the socio-economic roles of women in the pre-oil period and on changing gender roles from past to the present have yet to be assembled and discussed in more detail.
This workshop aims at bringing together scholars who are working on different aspects relating to Emirati womanhood, ranging from historical (self-)representations (in heritage, oral history, and museums), women’s political leadership, past and contemporary economic livelihoods, family and marriage laws, women’s health, to the various artistic fields in which Emirati women have come to express themselves, such as in theatre, literature, and the visual arts. The workshop will also address the various ways in which the established discourses and iconographies on gender and womanhood are contested and reinterpreted and how Emirati women’s voices and their agency can be further enhanced.