LSE Events | Elif Shafak | Where are the Women in Today's Islamic World?
Today all across the Middle East we observe a backlash of patriarchy. Women are being pushed back into the private space, reminded of their roles as mothers and wives. Even the fundamental rights that we thought we had can be lost easily. In truth, not only the Middle East but all over the world, women, especially Muslim women, are increasingly asking the most difficult questions and having the most engaging discussions on identity, religion, faith, freedom and sexuality. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion about some of the most compelling issues of our times.
Elif Shafak (@Elif_Safak) is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. She is also a political commentator and an inspirational public speaker. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published 15 books, 10 of which are novels, including the bestselling The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love. Her latest novel is Three Daughters of Eve. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages. She has been longlisted for the Orange Prize, MAN Asian Prize; the Baileys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award, and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize
Elif is a TED Global speaker, a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy in Davos and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). She has been awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2010 by the French government. Elif has taught at various universities in Turkey, UK and USA. She holds a degree in International Relations, a masters degree in Gender and Women’s Studies and a PhD in Political Science. She is known as a women’s rights, minority rights and LGBT rights advocate.
Mary Evans is Centennial Professor in the Gender Institute at LSE. Prior to coming to the LSE as a Visiting Fellow she taught Women's Studies and Sociology at the University of Kent. The primary focus of Professor Evans' work is those narratives (be they fictional or otherwise) through which we construct our social identity. Professor Evans is particularly interested in the part that gender and class play in these narratives and the ways in which narratives of ourselves are a essential part of what we define as the modern.
LSE’s Gender Institute (@LSEGenderTweet) is the largest gender studies centre in Europe. With a global perspective, the Gender Institute’s research and teaching intersects with other categories of analysis such as race, ethnicity, class and sexuality; because gender relations work in all spheres of life, interdisciplinarity is key to our approach.
The LSE Middle East Centre (@LSEMiddleEast) builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and North Africa and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region carried out at LSE.
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Brilliant discussion, could listen to her talk for hours. Intelligent, eloquent, passionate, inspiring.
@graysonkarter257
3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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@jairobraden3744
3 жыл бұрын
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Elif Shafak Is she An Angel? I have been following Elif since 2014 in Hard Talk,lectures talks on UTube etc etc,to the deepest realm of my Psyche,I believe this woman is a very rare Special Person.A woman of Heart Intelligence and Cerebral Sensitivity.An Adept Communicator. This combination of qualities also features in Barac Obama. Emotion is a Well of Intelligence discernment insight foresight. "Stop being Reasonable" by I have forgotten the author name. "A Revolution of Feeling" by Rachel Hewitt. Rationality on it's own dulls and clamps.it is limited. The driving instructor pains more as the clutch misses than the learner depth of despair at the miss. Logic !what logic?
Fantastic Turkish writer! unfortunately under-appreciated in Turkey as everything else that is good.
Who else in the world speaks of complexity, of nuance, lost treasures of the mind and soul upon which human survival depends! upon which joy and love are made! I have just 'by accident' discovered this amazing woman. May her readers and listeners multiply.
Elif embodies Warmth Empathy Discernment Powerful Imagination which she expresses so easily in her fictions.I am very fond of Elif Shafak.
She is such an inspiration
Starts around 4:24
I love reading her books
@jukokang7128
Жыл бұрын
Is she muslim?
She is amazing and intelligent turkish lady! we need turkish women, like Elif Shafak to show the world that we cannot be surrender to anybody regiment or anything
I love her
O loved So clear💚
No education system brings about individuality.
One pocket of resistance I would like to see is answering the Question about women marital conformation , should be MS. Along with crossing out other Mrs. &Miss, as men just have .Mr.
This woman is trully wise.
Why are we trying to trap water? What a Question? Only Elif can ask this Question?And she has the Answer. Let us always Doubt but still be Faithful.
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Following on what mrs. Shafak said about being numb: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic"- Stalin.
We need help to open minds and hearts in the north of england
Women in islam is in struggling phase trying to clear misconceptions abt islam.Allah is the ultimate judge He is most compassionate towards human beings.
Mind the Gaps!
Words as necessary exercises in Empathy.
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Dislike checked for this program could not done by people who like THINKING.
Country that has RUSHED back in history , is Iran !
IS SHE A MUSLIM OR NOT?