Radio Inquilab Ep 26 - The Question of International Law - Nora Jaber
Dr. Nora Jaber joins Radio Inquilab to talk about her research and work as it pertains to the question of international law.
As a Palestinian with Saudi nationality, Dr. Jaber has focused her research on the rights of Islamic women in Saudi and the framework they have used -- barring Western ideas and concepts -- to achieve freedom. She explains how when Saudi women were fighting for the right to drive and travel without an accomplice, the concept of Western feminism was viewed by the women as anathema. Instead they used their own methods and religious framework for progress.
Dr. Jaber also tackles the very difficult question of international law and how it has proved to be extremely ineffective in the face of the escalating violence by Israel against Palestinians, urging the need for an urgent alternative approach.
Resources Recommended:
- Ratna Kapur, Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl
- Bell Hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody
- Nora Jaber, On International Law & Gaza: Critical Reflections, London Review
- Françoise Vergès, A Decolonial Feminism
- Sarah Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life