Najjar, Dina

This paper examines women’s leadership in local group governance in Morocco, Tunisia, and Lebanon, highlighting rural co-operatives as key spaces for socioeconomic participation and agency. Based on interviews and focus groups with a total of 917 participants (688 women and 170 men co-operative members, and 59 officials), the study identifies major barriers to women’s leadership, […]

This is the introduction to the Special Issue on 'Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis'.

Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest rates of land ownership and workforce participation despite increased educational attainment. Sociocultural norms are often cited as the cause. Using the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, we conducted action research to address harmful norms around women’s inheritance, mobility, sexual harassment, and control […]