The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: The Politics of Engaged Transformative Gender Research, Suad Joseph, University of California Davis, U.S; Lena Meari, Birzeit University, Palestine; and Zeina Zaatari, University of Illinois Chicago, U.S

2. The Politics of Training for Engaged Gender Research, Suad Joseph, University of California Davis, U.S

PART 1 MAGHREB (NORTH AFRICA)

3. Doing Fieldwork with Women Land Rights Activists in Morocco: Power Relationships Within Feminism and its Discursive Framework of Right, Souad Eddouada, Iben Tofail University in Kenitra, Morocco

4. The Day I Became a Gentrifier: Narratives from the Outsider/Insider Ethnographer in the Field, Reeham Mourad, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

PART 2 MASHRIQ (ARAB EAST)

5. The Daily During Field Research: Settler Colonialism, Motherhood, and Knowledge Production, Rania Jawad, Birzeit University, Palestine

6. Fieldwork in the Palestinian Colonial Context: Searching for the Voices of Palestinian Women, Samar Kassis, Birzeit University, Palestine

7. The Fear Factor: Fieldwork Away from the Safety Blanket of Depoliticized Gender and Women's Issues, Sara Ababneh, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany

8. Research in the Jordanian Child Welfare System: Navigating Taboo Subjects, Rawan Ibrahim, German Jordanian University, Jordan

9. Conducting Research While Death Surrounds You: The Researcher, Gender, and War in Syria, Saja Al Zoubi, University of Oxford, U.K

10. Feminist Researcher in a Conservative Islamic Society, Iraq, Ilham Makki Hammadi, Ministry of Education, Iraq

PART 3 KHALEEJ (ARAB GULF)

11. Conducting Fieldwork in Shared Time and Space, Sarah Shaer, Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government, UAE

12. Personality and Perception: Aspects of the Researcher's identity and. Their Impact on Field Research Within Diverse Locations, Kholoud Al Ajarma, The University of Edinburgh, U.K