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By Naomi Sakr

ISBN-10: 1850434859

ISBN-13: 9781850434856

ISBN-10: 1850435456

ISBN-13: 9781850435457

Is modern altering media panorama within the center East empowering girls? this can be the 1st e-book to handle the dynamics of media ecology and women's development within the modern center East. The ebook spans a large interval, crosses the quarter and the media varieties, from Iran's women's press, through Maghrebi ladies filmmakers and Egyptian political motion pictures, to Palestinian television and Hezbollah's tv station, Al-Manar. It takes as its start line the various stories and multi-layered identities of girls and treats media associations and practices as a part of wider strength relatives in society. via studying media construction, intake and texts, it unearths the place and the way gender obstacles were confirmed or crossed.

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The number of female graduates from Iranian universities increased from 3,051 in 1969–70 to 47,323 in 1995–6. 20 The growing demands for a free press and for a diverse range of cultural products are partly a result of a wider social transformation and rise in educational standards, especially for women. This transformation has happened despite an early, and in some respects still continuing, attempt to impose gender segregation in education. Just four months after the collapse of the Pahlavi dynasty in February 1979, the new ministry of education banned co-education and declared many university courses to be unsuitable for women.

This association was the first of its kind. An integration of early Egyptian feminism and Egyptian nationalism developed through the pages of Al-Jarida (The Journal), a newspaper launched in 1907 by the founders of the nationalist Umma Party and edited from the beginning by Ahmed Lutfi al-Sayyid. By contributing to Al-Jarida, Malak Hifni Nassef became perhaps the first woman to write regular articles in the Egyptian national press. Under her pen name ‘Till I Become a Minister’ • 43 ‘Bahithat al-Badiya’ she wrote about all the issues that preoccupied the women of her time, including marriage, divorce, polygamy, education and the veil.

13 For many writers, education was linked to domesticity and the teaching of duties inside the home. Anis el-Galis (The Companion’s Companion),14 started in 1898 by the Beirut-born Alexandra Avierino, instructed women in child-rearing and home management, with an eye on homes and fashion in Europe. This magazine lasted for ten years. In the next few years a 42 • Women and Media in the Middle East succession of women’s magazines were founded, including Al-A’ila (The Family),15 Al-Mar’a fi’l-Islam (Women in Islam), Shagaret el-Dur, named after a woman who briefly ruled Egypt in the thirteenth century, and Magallat al-Sayyidat wa’l-Banat (Ladies’ and Girls’ Magazine).

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