INVITATION: 5-14 "Is the Arab Awakening Marginalizing Women?"

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Subject: INVITATION: 5-14 "Is the Arab Awakening Marginalizing Women?"

The Middle East Program and the Council of Women World Leaders of the Woodrow Wilson Center

present

Is the Arab Awakening Marginalizing Women?


 Monday, May 14, 2012
6th Floor Flom Auditorium


8:30 – 9:00am
Coffee
   
9:00 – 9:30am
Welcoming Remarks: Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center

Opening Remarks: Jane Harman, President, Director and CEO, Woodrow Wilson Center       

9:30 – 11:00am
PANEL 1

Fatima Sbaity-Kassem, Former Director, UN-ESCWA Centre for Women
“A Cup Half Full or Half Empty: Is a ‘Women’s Spring’ Inevitable in Transitions to Democracy?”

Lilia Labidi, Visiting Research Professor, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore; Former Minister of Women’s Affairs, Tunisia; and Former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
“Tunisia: Policies and Programs for Women during a Democratic Transition”

Moushira Khattab, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Former Egyptian Ambassador to South Africa and to the Czech and Slovak Republics; and Former Minister of Family and Population, Egypt
“Lost in Translation: The Case of Egyptian Women”

Moderator: Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center

11:00 – 11:15am
Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:45pm
PANEL 2

Rend Al-Rahim, Executive Director, Iraq Foundation; and Former Iraqi Ambassador to the United States
“Iraq: Frustrated Expectations”

Rola Dashti, Former member of Kuwaiti Parliament and Chairman, Kuwait Economic Society
“Arab Springs without Flowers”

Caryle Murphy, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
“Awakening Rains on Saudi Desert, Brings Green Shoots of Hope, Change”

Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Director, Women in Public Service Project Institute 2012, Wellesley College; and Director of International Human Rights Policy, Wellesley Centers for Women 
“The Way Ahead: Some Lessons from Other Post-Conflict Communities”

Moderator: Robin Wright, USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar

Read MEP’s latest publication on women in the Arab Spring: Reflections on Women in the Arab Spring



 
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