Elham Manea Explained

Elham Manea
Birth Name:Elham Manea
Birth Place:El Mahalla El Kubra, Egypt
Nationality:Yemeni, Swiss
Occupation:Writer, educator
Known For:Human rights advocacy

Elham Manea (Arabic: إلهام مانع; born 1966 in El Mahalla El Kubra, Egypt)[1] is a Swiss-Yemeni writer, professor, and human rights advocate. She is known for her human rights advocacy, especially for her defence of women's rights, freedom of expression, freedom of/from religion, minority and LGBT rights in the Arab and Islamic world (s). She has participated in several human rights campaigns in the MENA region and is considered part of the Islamic feminist movement that insists on the possibility of gender equality in Muslim majority countries. She has led mixed prayers in London, Bern, Berlin, Cape Town and Oxford in cooperation with inclusive mosques and open mosques initiatives.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Manea is a strong critic of far right religious groups ideologies inside and outside the MENA region. She has contributed to the knowledge production on women's rights in the MENA region and women under Muslim Laws with two well received books:[8] The Arab State and Women's Rights: The Trap of Authoritarian Governance (Routledge, 2011)The Arab State and Women's rights and Women and Sharia Law: The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK (I.B. Tauris, 2016).Women and Sharia Law

Manea is a regular guest in Arabic news channels and talk shows such as BBC Arabic and Al Hurra. She has been also featured as a commentator in Swiss news, radio and TV.[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

Background and academic Research

Manea graduated from Kuwait University in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in political science and American University in 1995 with a master's degree in comparative politics.[16] Manea is a Fulbright scholar who holds a Venia Legendi (Habilitation) and a PhD degree in political science from the University of Zurich. She was officially promoted to a titular professor in February 2023.

Manea worked as a radio and on-line journalist at Swiss Radio International (Swissinfo) until 2005. Between 2010 and 2019 she was a member of the Federal Commission for Women Affairs.[17] In 2020 she was appointed as a member of the Federal Commission for Migration, where she serves as a vice president. Die Eidgenössische Migrationskommission EKM Manea is member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Documentation Center for Political Islam.[18] In 2010

Manea is a titular professor of political science at the Political Science Institute, Zurich University.[19] She also works as an independent consultant.

Views on wearing the burka

She has criticised the burka as being "not-Islamic" and said that "The re-Islamisation of Saudi Arabia according to the Wahabi Salafi fundamentalist principles led to the mainstreaming of the burka. With Gulf money you had a promotion of this ideology and a reading of Islam that turned the burka into an 'Islamic' tradition." She called wearing it "a sign of segregation, separation, rejection of the values we see all around us — values of acceptance and tolerance and otherness."[20]

Bibliography

Manea has published academic and nonfiction books in English, German, and Arabic. Her publications include:

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 44583436.
  2. News: TOI . STAFF . Woman leads Friday prayers in Swiss mosque, sparks uproar . 17 March 2023 . Time of Israel . 4 June 2016 . Time of Israel.
  3. News: GRANTEE . Alice Su . The German Mosque That Attracts Women Imams, Gays, and Death Threats . 2023-03-17 . Politico . Pulitzer Center . 28 July 2017 . Politico.
  4. Web site: TV Interview . TV Interview . wiss-Based Yemeni Writer Elham Manea Justifies Women Leading Prayers: A Mosque without Women Reflects a Society in Which Women Are Invisible . MEMERI TV . MEMERI TVE . 17 March 2023 . Source: Deutsche Welle TV Arabia (Germany).
  5. News: Faiola &Kirchner . Anthony &Stephanie . In Germany, a new 'feminist' Islam is hoping to make a mark . 17 March 2023 . Washington Post . Washington Post . 17 June 2017.
  6. Jesper . Petersen . Pop-up Mosques, Social Media Adhan, and the Making of Female and LGBTQ-Inclusive Imams . Journal of Muslims in Europe . 2019 . 2 . 8 . 178–196 . 10.1163/22117954-12341392. 198629221 .
  7. Petersen . Jesper . Media and the Female Imam . Religions . 5 March 2019 . 3 . 10 . 13 . 10.3390/rel10030159 . free .
  8. Loretan . Adrian . Women and Shari'a Law: The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK. By Elham Manea . London: I. B. Tauris, 2016. Pp. 256. $25.00 (paper). : 978-1784537357 . Cambridge Journal of Law and Religion . 8 May 2017 . 32 . 1 . 202–205 . 10.1017/jlr.2017.22 . 149079193 . free .
  9. Web site: برنامج بلا قيود . بلا قيود يستضيف أ. د. إلهام مانع الأكاديمية والكاتبة والناشطة الحقوقية . BBC Arabic TV . BBC . 17 March 2023.
  10. Web site: برنامج مختلف عليه . لماذا يرفض رجال الدين إمامة المرأة؟ . قناة الحرة . ِAl Hurra TV . 17 March 2023.
  11. News: Bourget . Albertine . Elham Manea, la politologue et activiste qui croit au sursaut des penseurs musulmans . 17 March 2023 . Le Temps . Le Temps . 9 May 2016.
  12. News: SRF 4 New . Repression und Öffnungen: Saudi-Arabiens Rezept für die Zukunft . 17 March 2023 . SRF Swiss Radio and TV . Swiss Radio and TV . Swiss Radio and TV . 3 February 2023.
  13. News: Walser . Marino . "Die Revolution im Iran scheint möglich" Die Proteste im Iran dauern weiter an, die Gewalt nimmt zu. Politexpertin und Nahost-Kennerin Elham Manea spricht von einer starken Bewegung, die in der Lage sei, einen Regimewechsel im Iran anzustossen. . 17 March 2023 . 20 Minuten . Tamedia . 4 October 2022.
  14. News: Bandle . Rico . nterview zu Katar "Frauen als Süssigkeiten? Das ist in der arabischen Welt völlig normal" . 17 March 2023 . SONNTAGSZEITUNG . Tamedia.
  15. Web site: Tagesgespräch . Elham Manea über den "vergessenen Krieg" im Jemen . SRF Swiss Radio and TV . SRF Swiss Radio and TV . 17 March 2023.
  16. News: The Vision of a World Made New – Meet Dr. Elham Manea . 16 March 2023 . 6 September 2011.
  17. Web site: EKF - Mitglieder . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141024165742/http://www.ekf.admin.ch/org/00450/00475/index.html?lang=de . 2014-10-24 . www.ekf.admin.ch.
  18. https://www.dokumentationsstelle.at/en/aboutus/ About Us
  19. Web site: Website Elham Manea . University of Zurich, Department of Political Science, Staff . Department of Political Science . 17 March 2023.
  20. News: Hegerty . Siobhan . Burkas are political symbols not Islamic ones, Muslim scholar says . 30 August 2023 . ABC News . 28 August 2017 . en-AU.
  21. Web site: إلهام مانع دار الساقي دار نشر بيروت لبنان . www.daralsaqi.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110531000702/http://www.daralsaqi.com/content/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B9 . 2011-05-31.
  22. Web site: » » خطايا: اصدار جديد للدكتورة الهام مانع::. Doroob .::. دروب .:: . 2014-10-16 . https://archive.today/20141016082816/http://www.doroob.com/archives/?p=32162 . 2014-10-16 . dead .
  23. Book: Manea, Elham. The Arab State and Women's Rights: The Trap of Authoritarian Governance. 13 July 2011. Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics. de. 978-1-138-78923-4.
  24. Web site: Verlag Herder| Manea, Elham| Ich will nicht mehr schweigen . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141020120530/http://www.herder.de/buecher/details?k_tnr=29756 . 2014-10-20 . 2014-10-16.
  25. Book: Manea . Elham . Regional Politics in the Gulf . 2005 . Saqi Books . London . 978-0-86356-583-0 . 192 . 17 March 2023.
  26. Book: Manea . Elham . Women and Shari'a Law The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK . 2016 . I.b: Tauris . London . 978-1-350-98982-5 . 300 .
  27. Book: Manea . ELham . Der alltägliche Islamismus . 2018 . Kösel . München . 978-3-466-37212-6 . 282 .
  28. Book: Manea . Elham . The Perils of Nonviolent Islamism . 2021 . Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary . New York . 978-0-914386-82-7 .

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