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Feminist Islam: a Practice for the Present
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an interview with Zahra Ali
Catherine Parker-Sweatt- Al Thara
10-7-2010
Zahra ALI has been an active member and president of Al Houda, a Muslim women’s association in Rennes (France).
She is now a PhD student at EHESS Paris and IFPO Damascus, studying under the guidance of Nïlufer Göle. She is a French-Iraqi sociologist who specializes in gender and Islamic studies. She has conducted a study for her MPhil which analyzes the emergence of an Islamic feminist consciousness in France through an intersectional approach by using “race”, gender, and religion in renewing the approach to modernity. |
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Doctor Mana Ghanem in a-Thara:
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Exclusive Interview for a-Thara
19-6-2010
“I do not believe that work towards elimiating restrictions on the Sedaw Agreement is a Syrian priority which has not advanced the special United Nations strategy for women over the past 5 years.” 
Even after she took over as head of the Syrian Association for Womens’ Affairs Dr. Mana Ghanem continued to chose her words carefuly, avoiding ignighting a furory and retaining her diplomatic approach. She doesn’t anger her friends or inspire their resentment either! Dr. Ghanem attempts, with intelligence and wisdom, to maintain her neutrality. |
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An interview with Katherine Jippes
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At the Seminar on Women and Religious and Cultural Debate
Canadian society considers the coexistence and integration  of different cultural, religious and ethnic groups to be a fundamental issue, of huge importance. It therefore receives significant interest from institutions, centers and groups concerned about this question. Canadian society is founded on the idea of seeking ways to ensure a shared foundation for the life of all its inhabitants
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Judy Csillage from the Canadian Center for Diversity with Thara:
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We don't ask the immigrants to melt into our society,but rather,
we promote the preservation of identity.
By: Yahya Al-ِAous
Western societies differ from each other when it comes to the ability of minorities living in them to integrate and assimilate. From a country like the US, who strives to melt the various minorities, ethnicities and religious communities together and leaves no room for the preservation of identity, whatever that identity might be, to a country like Canada who is open to the preservation of the cultures of the minorities living on its land as long as they respect the cultural diversity of the country. Judy Csillage, from the Canadian Center for Diversity, participated in a workshop in Damascus concerning the role of women in cultural and religious dialogue. |
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Farzana Hassan, President of the Muslim Canadian Congress to Thara:
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The traditional understanding of Islam doesn’t allow
for equality between men and women.
In 2004, individuals from Muslim minorities living in Canada started advocating the implementation of the Shari'a law in court cases involving Muslims living in Canada. This request would not have been made in any other country, but Canada is a country of many religions, cultures and races. Nevertheless, this request was denied not only by the Canadian courts, but by a number of Muslim organizations which consider themselves secular.
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Marlene Bertrand: Building Shelters
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A veteran campaigner for women’s rights, Marlene Bertrand has  received numerous awards in her native Canada in recognition of her tireless work in the field of family violence prevention. She came to Damascus last week at the invitation of the National Association for the Development of the Role of Women, to lead a seminar on the logistics of running a women's shelter. Among those attending were employees and volunteers from a new women's shelter that has recently opened in Damascus. We talked to her about her work, and the obstacles faced by women's rights campaigners both in Syria and worldwide. |
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Representative for UNICEF at a meeting of 'Thara:
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The problems are resistance to change, cultural sensitivity, religion and lack of recognition of current problems.
Lea Neubert
Considering children's issues in Syria seems to be serious and necessary, especially within the growing discussions relating to the increasing child labor phenomenon and the appeal of journalistic reports about sexual abuse and child labor. This will be an extra responsibility for the official and international commissions in Syria to carry.
UNICEF, being the most reputable international commission concerning children's rights, has an important role in tackling this issue.
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Dr. Nimat Hafiz Al-Barazangi to Thara:
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Dr. Nimat Hafiz Al-Barazangi, in her book titled "Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: a New Reading," is trying to prove that the absence of Muslim women from taking part in the formation of Islamic identity leads to their obligatory alienation from entering in the contents of the Qur'anic text. This is restricted only to the men, who invade the Qur'anic texts and monopolize it to uphold their absolute power, which gives Islam an untruthful image of discrimination and ignoring women’s rights. |
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Hussain Al-'Odat to Thara:
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The Government is not able to manage the country anymore
The woman is the eternally oppressed.
ِHussain Al-'Odat is a writer and an outstanding journalist, the founder of the Syrian Press agency "Sana", a member of the council of the Union of Syrian Journalists, and the man responsible for the monitoring of the Union's freedoms. He is also an active member of the boards for the revival of civil society, and a member of the administrative board for the group "Jamal Al'itasy", the national discussion, a member of the board of Syrian publishers, and one of the most important advisors of the Arab human rights board.
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