THE ROLE OF ACADEMIA IN PROMOTING GENDER AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THE ARAB WORLD AND THE EUROPEAN REGION Erasmus+ project “Gender Studies Curriculum: A Step for Democracy and Peace in EU- Neighboring Countries with Different Traditions”, No. 561785-EPP-1-2015-1-LT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP UDC 305(063) Dépôt Légal : 2019MO2902 ISBN : 978-9954-692-05-9 The Role Of Academia In Promoting Gender And Women’s Rights In The Arab World And The European Region // Edited by Souad Slaoui, Khalid Bekkaoui, Kebir Sandy, Sadik Rddad, Karima Belghiti. – Publ. Société Généraled’Equipement&d’impression, Fes, Morocco, 2019. – 382 pp. This book contains articles by participants in the Forum " The role of academia in promoting gender and women’s rights in the Arab world and the European region " (Morocco, Fez, October, 1- 5, 2018 ). In the articles, the actual problems of gender identity, gender equality, gender education, gender and politics, gender and religion are raised. The materials will be useful to researchers, scientists, graduate students and students dealing with the problems of gender equality, intersexual relations, statistical indices of gender equality and other aspects of this field. Technical Editors: Natalija Mažeikienė, Olga Avramenko, Volodymyr Naradovyi. Acknowedgements to PhD students Mrs.Hajar Brgharbi, Mr.Mouhssine El Hajjami who have extensively worked with editors on collecting the abstract and the paper at the first stage of the compilation of this Conference volume. Recommended for publication: Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre, University SIdi Mohammed Ben Abdallah, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences Dhar Al Mahraz, Fez. ERASMUS+ Project “Gender Studies Curriculum: A Step for Democracy and Peace in EU- neighboring countries with different traditions – GeSt” [Ref. Number: 561785-EPP-1-2015- 1-LT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein ISBN 978-9954-692-05-9 © Authors of articles, 2019 © Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University The Erasmus+ project “Gender Studies Curriculum: A Step for Democracy and Peace in EU-Neighbouring Countries with Different Traditions”, No. 561785-EPP-1-2015-1-LT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP CONTENT PREFACE Fatima Sadiqi Gender at the Intersection of Academia and the Sociocultural and Political contexts in Arab World and European region................................. 6 INTRODUCTION Sadik Rddad (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University)…………….………….8 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Rajaa Nadifi (Université Hassan II de Casablanca, Marocco) Le Genre et L’université au Maroc : Cas de l’Université Hassan II de Casablanca .............. 20 GENDER AND EDUCATION Tetiana Lisova (Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University, NMGSU, Ukraine). Gender Differences in Students' Aspiration and Their Attitudes to Mathematics and Sciences ..................................................................................................... 29 Iryna Lupan (Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukraine State Pedagogical University, Ukraine). Samples in Gender Studies ............................................. 32 Souad Slaoui and Karima Belghiti (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). The Role of Gender Studies in Instilling Democracy and Gender Equality: The Case of Cultural Studies Master Students at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University ......................................................................................... 36 Hayat Naciri (University Sultane Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, Morocco). Challenges Faced by Sultan Moulay Slimane University Students: A Gender Perspective ....................................................................................................... 53 Boutheina Ben Hassine (University of Sousse, Tunisia). Role of publications in Gender to promote Women’s rights in Tunisia ................................................. 67 Mohamed Fadel (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). Roles of academia in gender equality: the case of Morocco.............................. 74 GENDER AND IDENTITY Lamprini Frosi (School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). We were” versus “they are”: Teachers Talk about Contemporary Adolescent Femininity ........................................................................................................ 89 Larysa Zahrai (Vasyl Stefanyk Prekarpathian National University Ivano- Frankivsk, Ukraine). Thematic Analysis of Research Experience Gender Identity ............................................................................................................. 98 Oksana Shchotka (Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University, Ukraine). Self- Presentation in Online Communication of Women-Winners of The TV Project "New Leaders Of Ukraine” ............................................................................ 102 GENDER, DISCOURSE AND IDEOLOGY Meriem Ouahidi (Sultan Moulay Slimane University). Gender Bias in Moroccan Proverb .......................................................................................... 106 3 The role of academia in promoting gender and women’s rights in the Arab world and the European region Nidal Chebbak (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). European women in Al-Hajjoui’s ar-Rihla al-Ouroupia 1919 ....................... 118 Nourdine El Khiyati (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). Against the Current: A Western Female Writer Celebrating Moroccan Women’s Agency ........................................................................................................... 126 Chemlal Said (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). Negotiating Gendered Spaces in Zakia Tahiri’s Film Number One (2008) .... 134 Bitari Wissam (Mohamed First University, Oujda). Gender and Migration in Academia and the Change in Perspectives of Empowerment: A Critical Reading in some Arab Migrant Literary Texts ............................................................. 144 Mouhcine El-Hajjami (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). Women and Subalternity in Moroccan Contemporary Cinema: Yassmine Kassari’s Erraged (The Sleeping Child) (2004) ............................. 157 El Ouardi Fettah (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). Destabilizing Patriarchal Paradigms in Saudi Arabian Society Rajaa AlSanea’s Girls of Riyadh (2008) As a Case Study ......................................................... 164 El Houssine Khadiri (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). Resisting the Double Oppression and the Quest for Home and an Identity the Case Fadia Faqir’s My Name Is Salma ........................................................... 184 Imane Ismaili Alaoui (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). Feminine Orientalism: Western Female Travelers Journeying across the Land of the Moors ....................................................................................................... 198 Yassmine Zerrouki (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). Gendered Spaces Revisited: Femininity Conquers Masculinity in Casanegra and Number One. .................................................................................................. 205 Manal Dao Sabbah (USMBA, Fes). Islamic Feminist Methodologies of Reading the Sacred Text: Empowering and Apologetic Perspectives ............. 219 GENDER AND RELIGION Yurii Hurtovyi (Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukraine State Pedagogical University, Ukraine). Gender stereotypes and roles in traditional religions .... 233 Abdelmjid Kettioui (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). Islam’s Blonde Conquests on the Barbary Coast: The Geopolitical, Spiritual and Sexual Stakes of Female Captivity in Elizabeth Marsh’s The Female Captive (1769) ............................................................................................................. 237 Hamid Masfour (University Sultane Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, Morocco). Deconstructing Religious Misinterpretations of the Female Body for Promoting Arabo-Moslem Women’s Rights .................................................................... 256 Zakaria Laghmam (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). The Sexualized body of Muslim Women in Hirsi Ali’s Submission ............... 265 GENDER AND POLITICS Kebir Sandy (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). Women in the Moroccan Political Arena: A Struggle for Identity Confirmation .......... 277 4 The Erasmus+ project “Gender Studies Curriculum: A Step for Democracy and Peace in EU-Neighbouring Countries with Different Traditions”, No. 561785-EPP-1-2015-1-LT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP Farida Mokhtari (University Sultane Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, Morocco). The Status of Moroccan Women in the new Socio-political Society............... 282 Tariq Bekkaoui Laila Lalami: Politics, Religion And Identity In The Journalistic Writings of A Moroccan Woman In America .............................. 292 Salma Takky (USMBA, Fes). Women’s Representation in Moroccan and international Law-CEDAW convention ,The Moroccan Family Code (Moudawana) and The Moroccan Penal Code as case studies ........................ 300 Kateryna Akbash, Olga Avramenko (Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukraine State Pedagogical University, Ukraine). Statistical Analysis of the Constituent Indicators of Global Gender Gap Index in Ukraine (2006-2017) . 310 Hoyan I.M. (Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano- Frankivsk).