The Institute of Islamic Area Studies hold a hybrid research Seminar on "Land Tenure, Inheritance, and Gender in Middle East" on Tuesday May 23, 2023
Institute of Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University invites Myriam Ababsa (associate researcher at the French Institute for the Near-East (IFPO)), and hold a research seminar on the property, inheritance and gender in Jordan with Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji Nagasawa) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Maslaha as practiced in Muslim societies: A comparative study with a special focus on rights of socially disadvantaged people” (Principal Investigator: Satoe Horii). Myriam Ababsa is social geographer based in Jordan since 2000. Her work focuses on the impact of public policies on regional and urban development in Jordan and Syria. She also works for the United Nations as an urban planner. In this seminar, she will talk about the land tenure and inheritance system in Jordan, and social mechanism to exclude women from land property based on the fieldwork she carried out in Jordan in 2015-2016. Kazuaki Takemura (Takachiho University), who has been studying land ownership in the desert with Egypt as his field, will comment on her presentation from a comparison with Egypt.
Date & Time : May 23, 2023 (Tue), 17:30 – 19:00
Place: Building 2, Room 730 (7th floor), Sophia University Yotsuya Campus
Language : English
“Women's Land Inheritance Rights and Practices in Jordan”
Registration: Link (Registration deadline May 18, 2023 )
*Seminar URL will be sent to you later.
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Dr. Myriam ABABSA has directed the Atlas of Jordan. History, Territories and Society (IFPO 2013), and co-edited with Baudouin Dupret and Eric Denis Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East (University of Cairo Press, 2012) and with Rami Daher, Cities, Urban Practices and Nation Building in Jordan (IFPO 2011). She holds a PhD in Geography from the University François Rabelais of Tours (2004) on Raqqa (Syrian Studies Association, Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Special Mention, 2006). She is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Fontenay-Saint Cloud)
Dr. Kazuaki TAKEMURA is Associate Professor at Takachiho University(Tokyo).
He received Ph.D.from Tokyo University (Tokyo, Japan) in 2011, and M.A. from The American University in Cairo (Egypt) in 2005.
Previously, he served as Research Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at The University of Tokyo in 2013-2015. His research has focused on land ownership in the desert with Egypt.
Contact: Institute of Islamic Area Studies, Sophia University
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- "Research on the Dynamics of the Reconstruction of Publicness in Contemporary Islam" funded by by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan (Principal Investigator: Masayuki Akahori)
- “Maslaha as practiced in Muslim societies: A comparative study with a special focus on rights of socially disadvantaged people” (Principal Investigator: Satoe Horii) funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
- “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji Nagasawa) funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
