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Radio Intifada will cap off its monthlong coverage of women in the SWANA region by looking at the socio-cultural-political dynamics that affect women's lives in Armenia, Jordan and Palestine.  The issue of violences against women and the responses to such violences are at the core of this week's show.

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Women's History Month Programming - Part IV

Focus on Armenia, Jordan, and Palestine

featuring

Sara Anjargolian is a Los Angeles based photographer and attorney. A former Associate Professor/Assistant Dean at the American University of Armenia law department. Her work on the changing role of women in post-Soviet transitional societies can be found in The State of Law in the South Caucasus.

Narineh Mirzaeian is an award winning Los Angeles based designer and Associate at Gehry Partners.  Her work has been published in Metropolis, Interior Design, Architectural Record, Architecture, and exhibited internationally.

Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a senior lecturer ar the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a lecturer at USC and UCLA law schools and project leader of Gender Studies Project at MADA al-Carmel: Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa. Her research includes domestic abuse in cross cultural perspectives; criminalization of sexual abuse; and women, militarization and war.

Dr. Rula Qawas is Professor of American Literature in the English Department at the University of Jordan. She is the founder of the Women's Studies Center at the University of Jordan and was its first Director. In 2009, she founded Knowledge Production Unit at the Jordanian National Commission for Women.

Produced and hosted by

Lucy DerTavitian and Rana Sharif

SWANA, South and West Asia and North Africa Collective

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