Maha Tazi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6727691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maha Tazi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maha |
| FAMILY NAME | Tazi |
| SIGNATURE | TAZI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dancing off Patriarchy and Orientalism in Moroccan Pop Singer Manal's Song Niya
My previous work examined how pop artists in the Arab region are using self‐orientalism in their visual artworks to articulate a decolonial critique that aims to subvert the orientalist discourse through an inversion and a re‐appropriation of the colonial gaze (Tazi, forthcoming). In other words, to borrow from a famous saying by Black feminist Audre Lorde (1984), these artists are “the master's tools to dismantle the master's house.” The objecti…
Slamming the “Continuing” Moroccan Revolution
In this article, I am interested in looking at women's current mobilization techniques in Post-Arab Spring North Africa. To do so, I draw from the existing literature on the case of Egypt which identifies women's contemporary resistance in creative disobedience patterns – that is women's art activism that advocates, concomitantly, for social justice and gender equality. In my attempt to fill an existing gap in the literature, I investigate the ex…
The Rise of Fourth‐Wave Feminism in the Arab region? Cyberfeminism and Women's Activism at the Crossroads of the Arab Spring
This article explores the emergence of fourth-wave feminism in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region in the context of the Arab Spring, which was a series of uprisings that followed the self-immolation of Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010 and spread through several countries in the MENA region. The uprisings protested authoritarian regimes and called for democracy, freedom, and social justice. Fourth-wave feminism finds its origins …
The Arab Feminist Spring Winter
It is expected that revolutionary movements traditionally bring about social change towards freer and more equitable societies. Several philosophers from the Age of Enlightenment, such as Thomas Ho
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Slamming the “Continuing” Moroccan Revolution
In this article, I am interested in looking at women's current mobilization techniques in Post-Arab Spring North Africa. To do so, I draw from the existing literature on the case of Egypt which identifies women's contemporary resistance in creative disobedience patterns – that is women's art activism that advocates, concomitantly, for social justice and gender equality. In my attempt to fill an existing gap in the literature, I investigate the ex…
The Rise of Fourth‐Wave Feminism in the Arab region? Cyberfeminism and Women's Activism at the Crossroads of the Arab Spring
This article explores the emergence of fourth-wave feminism in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region in the context of the Arab Spring, which was a series of uprisings that followed the self-immolation of Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010 and spread through several countries in the MENA region. The uprisings protested authoritarian regimes and called for democracy, freedom, and social justice. Fourth-wave feminism finds its origins …
The Arab Feminist Spring Winter
It is expected that revolutionary movements traditionally bring about social change towards freer and more equitable societies. Several philosophers from the Age of Enlightenment, such as Thomas Ho
Dancing off Patriarchy and Orientalism in Moroccan Pop Singer Manal's Song Niya
My previous work examined how pop artists in the Arab region are using self‐orientalism in their visual artworks to articulate a decolonial critique that aims to subvert the orientalist discourse through an inversion and a re‐appropriation of the colonial gaze (Tazi, forthcoming). In other words, to borrow from a famous saying by Black feminist Audre Lorde (1984), these artists are “the master's tools to dismantle the master's house.” The objecti…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (2 works) · North African History and Literature (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (1 works)