This book illustrates how Arab women have been engaging in three ongoing parallel struggles
before during and after the Arab Spring on three levels namely: the political struggle to
pave the road for democracy freedom and reform the social struggle to achieve gender
equality and fight all forms of injustice and discrimination against women and the legal
struggle to chart new laws which can safeguard both the political and the social gains. The
contributors argue that while the political upheavals were oftentimes more prevalent and
visible they should not overshadow the parallel social and legal revolutions which are equally
important due to their long-term impacts on the region. The chapters shed light on the
intersections overlaps and divergences between these simultaneous continuous gendered
struggles and unpacks their complexities and multiple implications locally regionally and
internationally across different countries and through different phases.
