Bahrain Women & Men
Guardianship & Testimony
Discrimination or Justice
Complicated Issues Bahrain Women Association will address during its
Second Open Discussion “Women: A New Paradigm”
In the context of Bahrain Women Association (BWA) project ” Women: A New Paradigm” launched on 21st of March this year, the second open discussion will be held in Manama on August 15, 2009 with the slogan: “Women and Men … Discrimination or Justice”. Expertise and researchers know with their valuable contribution in this field will participate in the discussion of such complicated issues concerning the status of women and their ability to carry out their various roles.
The topics to be discussed under this project falls into four open discussions each includes several sessions to raise and discuss a number of controversial issues. Wife beating, domestic violence, guardianship of men and disobedience were dealt with in the first discussion. The second will to be held on 15 August with the slogan “women and men .. discrimination or justice”, it will consider topics related to women testimony and the domain of men guardianship or supervision. The third open discussion at the end of October will address alimony, custody, housing, under the slogan: “Retained in honor or released in kindness”. “Towards Successful Family Partnership” is the last, planned to be launched during the occasion of Bahrain Women’s Day in December, it will deal with minimum marriage age and polygamy matters.
In the August Open discussion, Dr. Heba Raouf Ezzat, an Islamic thinker and lecturer at Department of Political Science, Cairo University will start present her research in the related topics. Dr. Ezzat is the editor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook (Arabic version) with the Centre for Global Governance, London School of Economics. She has different publications on women’s rights, human rights, Islam, modernity, interfaith and citizenship like ” Women and Politics: An Islamic Perspective”, ‘The Political Imagination of Islamists: A Conceptual Analysis’, ‘Islam and Equality: Debating the Future of Women’s and Minority Rights in the Middle East and North Africa’, ‘Islam and Secularism in the Middle East’. Dr. Ezzat also wrote background papers for the UNIFEM Report on Women in the Arab World 2004; and to the UNDP Arab Human Development Report 2006.
