My research combines Islamic normative discourses and their communal and individual reception among Muslim communities in Europe and the Middle East.
Women’s leadership and authority within communities in Europe and the Middle East: This project is in collaboration with Prof Annelies Moors (University of Amsterdam) and Prof Mathias Rohe (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg). Finally, it examines what other alternative support mechanisms – outside of secular legal systems – exist in the two countries for women to avail of their marital rights. By analysing two recent legal case studies in each country, the project further investigates to what extent these new forms of marriages are recognised within English and German law. Life narratives will be collected and two art workshops will be conducted to examine the women’s agency in developing new forms of Muslim marriages. The project employs an innovative combination of ethnographic, legal and artistic research approaches. It focuses on Iraqi and Syrian war-widows who have settled in the UK and Germany since the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011. This pilot study offers a perspectival shift on Muslim marriages by placing the experiences and voices of Muslim women at the centre of research. Reconsidering Muslim marriage practices in Europe: the case of Iraqi and Syrian war-widowsįunded by British Academy: Tackling the UK’s International Challenges 2017 The project seeks to improve gender socialisation among refugees in Jordan feeding into SDP Goal 5 to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment.
An interdisciplinary team from the UK and Jordan will employ innovative research methods, including art and Virtual Reality (VR) technology, and offer judicial training programmes and awareness sessions for refugee women and social work students. It examines: a) how heritage is re-defined to empower women to gain dignity and resilience as refugees in Jordan b) how the refugee context places women in positions of added vulnerability, subjecting them to interpersonal or structural violence and c) what support mechanisms exist within the law, civil society and among NGOs, which are religio-culturally sensitive and can be used by women to oppose violence within their refugee context. This project focuses on the changing nature of family structures, within sexual and conjugal relationships among Iraqi and Syrian refugee women in Jordan. Negotiating Relationships and Redefining Traditions: Syrian and Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordanįunded by British Academy Sustainable Development Programme
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