Rania Maktabi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rania Maktabi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rania |
| FAMILY NAME | Maktabi |
| SIGNATURE | MAKTABI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Østfold University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7864-6616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Kvinners adgang til skilsmisse i arabiske stater 1956–2021
I januar 2000 vedtok det egyptiske parlamentet en skilsmisselov (khul’-loven) som brøt med islamsk rettspraksis. Ringvirkningene av Egypts lovendring 20 år etter viser at 9 av 18 arabiske stater har gjennomført skilsmissereformer som gir kvinner en autonom rett til skilsmisse. Hvorfor har autoritære arabiske stater vist en vilje til å styrke kvinners sivile rettigheter de siste 20 årene
Courting women in the Gulf monarchies
The article highlights the appointment of women as adjudicators in court in the Gulf monarchies between 2005–2020. The main question addressed is: What are the driving forces behind the inclusion of women in the judiciary in these overtly conservative societies? Two circumstances are explored: First, the rise in the number of female lawyers along with the appointment of professional women in law as deputy public prosecutors. This question respond…
Introduction
Since the turn of the millennium, the appointment of women judges has increased markedly in Africa and the Middle East, along with the social and political influence of courts. The expansion of judicial power worldwide raises important questions about who the judges are and what their role should be. The appointment of women to positions of judicial authority has increased, but this increase is only beginning to be reflected in socio-legal studie…
Institutional Legal Reform in Kuwait after 2011
In 2015, Law 12 legislated for the establishment of family courts for the first time in the modern history of Kuwait. The reflections and experiences of stakeholders—judges, lawyers, and administrators—surrounding this law are here contextualized from three perspectives: (1) as an institutional means of strengthening Kuwaiti women’s civil rights in marriage and divorce after women were given political rights in 2005; (2) as part of wide-ranging j…
Female Citizenship under Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East
In Creating Consent in Baʿthist Syria, Esther Meininghaus claims that Syria between 1967 and 2008 was a totalitarian state and that the dispersion of welfare through a mass organization—The General Union for Syrian Women—secured consent toward the repressive regime. The article argues that the Syrian Baʿthist regime is better understood as authoritarian rather than totalitarian. By overlooking the impact of religious pluralism on women's status a…
Female Citizenship and the Franchise in Kuwait after 2005
Reluctant Feminists? Islamist MP s and the Representation of Women in Kuwait after 2005
Drawing on theories of representation in general, and "the politics of presence" perspective in particular, this article explores whether and how female parliamentarians in Kuwait influenced male MP s to support female civil and economic rights after women's enfranchisement in 2005. A review of parliamentary documents between 2006 and 2016 reveals that a sharp rise in the number of law proposals occurred in the parliamentary Family and Woman Affa…
Middle Eastern Patriarchy in Transition
Female Citizenship in the Middle East
This article explores the relationship between type of court system, parliamentary reform, and expanded female citizenship in four Arab states between 1990 and 2010. I argue that female citizens have acquired wider civil rights through parliament in relatively homogenous states with unitary court systems than in multireligious states with dual court systems. In Egypt and Morocco, unitary courts curbed clerical judicial authority over family law a…
Gender, family law and citizenship in Syria
This paper explores the impact of family law on the structuring of gendered citizenship in Syria where the state's family law accords male and female citizens different legal status, thus ordering the distribution of basic rights and duties along gendered lines. Partial centralization and fragmented secularization of judicial authority relates to the accommodation of religious groups, a policy which was continued after the establishment of territ…
Bokanmeldelser
The Lebanese census of 1932 revisited. Who are the Lebanese
The Lebanese state is analysed as a membership organization where both formal-legal and political objectives control admission. The 1932 census played a fundamental role in the state-building process of the Lebanese state: political representation was based on its findings, it was the basis for personal registration of the population residing on Lebanese territories, and it formed one of the cornerstones for obtaining citizenship in the Lebanese …
The Lebanese census of 1932 revisited. Who are the Lebanese
The Lebanese state is analysed as a membership organization where both formal-legal and political objectives control admission. The 1932 census played a fundamental role in the state-building process of the Lebanese state: political representation was based on its findings, it was the basis for personal registration of the population residing on Lebanese territories, and it formed one of the cornerstones for obtaining citizenship in the Lebanese …
Female Citizenship in the Middle East
This article explores the relationship between type of court system, parliamentary reform, and expanded female citizenship in four Arab states between 1990 and 2010. I argue that female citizens have acquired wider civil rights through parliament in relatively homogenous states with unitary court systems than in multireligious states with dual court systems. In Egypt and Morocco, unitary courts curbed clerical judicial authority over family law a…
Gender, family law and citizenship in Syria
This paper explores the impact of family law on the structuring of gendered citizenship in Syria where the state's family law accords male and female citizens different legal status, thus ordering the distribution of basic rights and duties along gendered lines. Partial centralization and fragmented secularization of judicial authority relates to the accommodation of religious groups, a policy which was continued after the establishment of territ…
The Lebanese census of 1932 revisited. Who are the Lebanese
The Lebanese state is analysed as a membership organization where both formal-legal and political objectives control admission. The 1932 census played a fundamental role in the state-building process of the Lebanese state: political representation was based on its findings, it was the basis for personal registration of the population residing on Lebanese territories, and it formed one of the cornerstones for obtaining citizenship in the Lebanese …
Bokanmeldelser
Gender, family law and citizenship in Syria
This paper explores the impact of family law on the structuring of gendered citizenship in Syria where the state's family law accords male and female citizens different legal status, thus ordering the distribution of basic rights and duties along gendered lines. Partial centralization and fragmented secularization of judicial authority relates to the accommodation of religious groups, a policy which was continued after the establishment of territ…
Female Citizenship in the Middle East
This article explores the relationship between type of court system, parliamentary reform, and expanded female citizenship in four Arab states between 1990 and 2010. I argue that female citizens have acquired wider civil rights through parliament in relatively homogenous states with unitary court systems than in multireligious states with dual court systems. In Egypt and Morocco, unitary courts curbed clerical judicial authority over family law a…
Female Citizenship and the Franchise in Kuwait after 2005
Reluctant Feminists? Islamist MP s and the Representation of Women in Kuwait after 2005
Drawing on theories of representation in general, and "the politics of presence" perspective in particular, this article explores whether and how female parliamentarians in Kuwait influenced male MP s to support female civil and economic rights after women's enfranchisement in 2005. A review of parliamentary documents between 2006 and 2016 reveals that a sharp rise in the number of law proposals occurred in the parliamentary Family and Woman Affa…
Middle Eastern Patriarchy in Transition
Female Citizenship under Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East
In Creating Consent in Baʿthist Syria, Esther Meininghaus claims that Syria between 1967 and 2008 was a totalitarian state and that the dispersion of welfare through a mass organization—The General Union for Syrian Women—secured consent toward the repressive regime. The article argues that the Syrian Baʿthist regime is better understood as authoritarian rather than totalitarian. By overlooking the impact of religious pluralism on women's status a…
Institutional Legal Reform in Kuwait after 2011
In 2015, Law 12 legislated for the establishment of family courts for the first time in the modern history of Kuwait. The reflections and experiences of stakeholders—judges, lawyers, and administrators—surrounding this law are here contextualized from three perspectives: (1) as an institutional means of strengthening Kuwaiti women’s civil rights in marriage and divorce after women were given political rights in 2005; (2) as part of wide-ranging j…
Courting women in the Gulf monarchies
The article highlights the appointment of women as adjudicators in court in the Gulf monarchies between 2005–2020. The main question addressed is: What are the driving forces behind the inclusion of women in the judiciary in these overtly conservative societies? Two circumstances are explored: First, the rise in the number of female lawyers along with the appointment of professional women in law as deputy public prosecutors. This question respond…
Introduction
Since the turn of the millennium, the appointment of women judges has increased markedly in Africa and the Middle East, along with the social and political influence of courts. The expansion of judicial power worldwide raises important questions about who the judges are and what their role should be. The appointment of women to positions of judicial authority has increased, but this increase is only beginning to be reflected in socio-legal studie…
Kvinners adgang til skilsmisse i arabiske stater 1956–2021
I januar 2000 vedtok det egyptiske parlamentet en skilsmisselov (khul’-loven) som brøt med islamsk rettspraksis. Ringvirkningene av Egypts lovendring 20 år etter viser at 9 av 18 arabiske stater har gjennomført skilsmissereformer som gir kvinner en autonom rett til skilsmisse. Hvorfor har autoritære arabiske stater vist en vilje til å styrke kvinners sivile rettigheter de siste 20 årene
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · Citizenship (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Family law (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works)