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The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia (2016)
Journal Article
Khatun, S. (2017). The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia. Gender and History, 29(1), 8-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12258

From 1860 to the 1920s, Muslim merchants and workers from across British India and Afghanistan travelled to Australian shores to work in the extensive camel transportation network that underpinned the growth of capitalism in the Australian interior.... Read More about The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia.

The new dynamics in the inclusion and empowerment of young women. In:The Arab Human Development Report 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality (2016)
Report
Al-Ali, N., Ali, Z., & Isabel, M. (2016). The new dynamics in the inclusion and empowerment of young women. In:The Arab Human Development Report 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality

This chapter assesses the varying degrees to which young women in Arab countries are empowered or disempowered, included or excluded. Setting aside the stereotypes of subordination, it presents a nuanced picture
of the changing circumstances of youn... Read More about The new dynamics in the inclusion and empowerment of young women. In:The Arab Human Development Report 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality.

Gender, power and violence (2016)
Other
Al-Ali, N. (2016). Gender, power and violence

The article discusses the significance of a gendered lens for understanding war, violence and conflict in the Middle East.

Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong (2016)
Book Chapter
Tan, C. G. (2016). Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong. In J. Elias, & L. Rethel (Eds.), The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia (218-236). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316402092.011

There are currently over 320,000 full-time, live-in migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in Hong Kong, the vast majority of whom are from Southeast Asia. In recent years, women from the Philippines and Indonesia have constituted 48 per cent and 49 per cen... Read More about Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.

How to Talk about Gender-Based Violence? (2016)
Other
Al-Ali, N. (2016). How to Talk about Gender-Based Violence?

The articles discusses the challenges for transnational feminists to talk about gender-based violence in an intersectional manner.

Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada (2016)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2016). Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada. Darkmatter (Uxbridge), 14,

In the mid to late nineteenth century, as English and French settlers were in the process of consolidating their colonial Dominion over vast First Nations’ territories in the form of a Canadian federal state, the government enacted legislation to cre... Read More about Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada.

Peace Making or State Breaking? The Turkish-Kurdish Peace Processes and the Role of Diasporas (2016)
Journal Article
Tas, L. (2016). Peace Making or State Breaking? The Turkish-Kurdish Peace Processes and the Role of Diasporas. Review of social studies, 3(1), 25-65. https://doi.org/10.21586/ross0000028

When Erdogan and his party, the AKP, were elected for the first time in 2002, they made several important pledges. None of these have been fulfilled. On the contrary, in recent years the conflict between Turks and Kurds has increased and societal div... Read More about Peace Making or State Breaking? The Turkish-Kurdish Peace Processes and the Role of Diasporas.

Robust Peacekeeping, Gender and the Protection of Civilians (2016)
Book Chapter
Heathcote, G. (2016). Robust Peacekeeping, Gender and the Protection of Civilians. In H. Charlesworth, & J. Farrall (Eds.), Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council (150-163). Routledge

The line between peacekeeping and force is increasingly blurred in the work of the United Nations Security Council and without sufficient review or assessment of the merits of adding force to peacekeeping mandates. The blurred line between peacekeep... Read More about Robust Peacekeeping, Gender and the Protection of Civilians.

Sexual violence in Iraq: Challenges for transnational feminist politics (2016)
Journal Article
Al-Ali, N. (2018). Sexual violence in Iraq: Challenges for transnational feminist politics. European Journal of Women's Studies, 25(1), 10-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506816633723

The article discusses sexual violence by ISIS against women in Iraq, particularly Yezidi women, against the historical background of broader sexual and gender-based violence. It intervenes in feminist debates about how to approach and analyse sexual... Read More about Sexual violence in Iraq: Challenges for transnational feminist politics.