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The Jail of Feminism: Patriarchy and Islamophobia debated
February 07, 20177:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
Casa Árabe and Akal have organized a round table discussion upon the publication of this book by Sirin Adlbi Sibai.
Islam’s image in the West has often been constructed through conceptual categories which ended up creating a great abyss of inferiority and placing Otherness inside of it: what in the Qur’an is called an “order of values” has been translated as “a primitive religion,” and the role of a political strategist like Scheherazade was reduced to that of a storyteller. In order to stop this endless cycle, we must create a new sort of Islamic thought which reinterprets and questions basic concepts. This will make it possible to dismantle the discourses about Islamic feminism viewed through the imposed lens of colonialism. On the occasion of the publication of the book La cárcel del feminismo (The Jail of Feminism), the author and two experts will take part in a talk about these subjects.
The event will include the participation of Sirin Adlbi Sibai, an Arabist, political scientist and author of the book The Jail of Feminism; Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín, a professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Maria Caterina La Barbera, an expert on gender studies and feminists. The talk will be moderated by Jesús Espino, assistant editing director at the publishing firm Ediciones Akal.
The event will include the participation of Sirin Adlbi Sibai, an Arabist, political scientist and author of the book The Jail of Feminism; Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín, a professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Maria Caterina La Barbera, an expert on gender studies and feminists. The talk will be moderated by Jesús Espino, assistant editing director at the publishing firm Ediciones Akal.
Sirin Adlbi Sibai holds a PhD in International Mediterranean Studies and
is a specialist in political theory. She is also a member of the team
of educators at the International Summer School of Critical Islamic
Thought in Granada and the research team of the International
Mediterranean Studies Workshop at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
She has had many articles published on feminism, colonialism and
Islamophobia, and has given conferences at several universities and
research centers, in addition to working as a Syrian-Spanish activist
who opposes the Assad family regime.
Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín is a professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). He currently holds the director’s position at that university’s Social Anthropology and Spanish Philosophical Thought Department. He teaches courses on the anthropology of development and post-colonial studies. In Central America and the Western Sahara, he has promoted collaborative research projects with a focus on decolonization, with and through subordinated groups and peoples currently fighting, using alternative epistemologies and methodologies.
Maria Caterina La Barbera has a PhD in Human Rights from the University of Palermo, Italy. She is an expert on gender studies and feminists, and in particular she performs research on gender-based discrimination at crossroads with other factors for inequality. She was the main researcher on the research project “Women in Transit and Transformation Gender Identity in Migration Processes,” financed by Spain’s Institute of Women (Instituto de la Mujer). She authored the book Multicentered Feminism (2009) and co-edited the volumes Identity and Migration in Europe (2015) and Igualdad y no discriminación en España (Equality and Non-discrimination in Spain, 2016).
Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín is a professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). He currently holds the director’s position at that university’s Social Anthropology and Spanish Philosophical Thought Department. He teaches courses on the anthropology of development and post-colonial studies. In Central America and the Western Sahara, he has promoted collaborative research projects with a focus on decolonization, with and through subordinated groups and peoples currently fighting, using alternative epistemologies and methodologies.
Maria Caterina La Barbera has a PhD in Human Rights from the University of Palermo, Italy. She is an expert on gender studies and feminists, and in particular she performs research on gender-based discrimination at crossroads with other factors for inequality. She was the main researcher on the research project “Women in Transit and Transformation Gender Identity in Migration Processes,” financed by Spain’s Institute of Women (Instituto de la Mujer). She authored the book Multicentered Feminism (2009) and co-edited the volumes Identity and Migration in Europe (2015) and Igualdad y no discriminación en España (Equality and Non-discrimination in Spain, 2016).