Posts in Middle East

In Conversation with Hannah Smith: Erdoğan the ‘Original Modern-Populist’

Elections are just the tip of the iceberg, underneath all that there’s so much that you need, you need a healthy civil society, you need people who are educated enough to make the right decisions, you need a political culture which isn’t just about worshiping the strongest guy.

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Inequality at Home: Household Labour, Education and the Labour Force in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia

In the Global South, expectations of women’s role as ‘home-maker’ start young and can damage girls’ attendance in school and subsequent life opportunities. For adults across the Global South and North, the disproportionate gendered split of household labour is damaging for women’s careers and leisure time.

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