Institute of Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University invites Myriam Ababsa (associate researcher at the French Institute for the Near-East (IFPO)), and hold a research seminar on the property, inheritance and gender in Jordan with Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji Nagasawa) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Maslaha as practiced in Muslim societies: A comparative study with a special focus on rights of socially disadvantaged people” (Principal Investigator: Satoe Horii).

Myriam Ababsa is social geographer based in Jordan since 2000. Her work focuses on the impact of public policies on regional and urban development in Jordan and Syria. She also works for the United Nations as an urban planner. In this seminar, she will talk about the land tenure and inheritance system in Jordan, and social mechanism to exclude women from land property based on the fieldwork she carried out in Jordan in 2015-2016.

Kazuaki Takemura (Takachiho University), who has been studying land ownership in the desert with Egypt as his field, will comment on her presentation from a comparison with Egypt.

Overview

• Time: May 23 (Tues) 2023, 17:30 – 19:00
• Place
  [Onsite] Building 2, Room 730 (7th floor), Sophia University Yotsuya Campus（https://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/aboutsophia/access/campus/）
  [Online] Zoom
• Language: English

Program

17:30-17:35　
Opening
Erina IWASAKI (Sophia University)

17:35-18:20　
Myriam ABABSA (French Institute for the Near-East: IFPO)
“Women’s Land Inheritance Rights and Practices in Jordan”

18:20-18:30
Comments
Kazuaki TAKEMURA (Takachiho University)

18:30-19:00
Discussions

Registration

https://forms.gle/CYy9KbYLHcSempfH9
(Registration deadline May 18, 2023 )*Seminar URL will be sent to you later.

 Organization

• Research on the Dynamics of the Reconstruction of Publicness in Contemporary Islam (Academic Research Promotion Fund by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan) (Principal Investigator: Masayuki Akahori)
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Maslaha as practiced in Muslim societies: A comparative study with a special focus on rights of socially disadvantaged people” (Principal Investigator: Satoe Horii)
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji Nagasawa)

Contact

Institute of Islamic Area Studies, Sophia University

• https://dept.sophia.ac.jp/is/SIAS/index.html
• sias-co[at]sophia.ac.jp please change [at] to @

Myriam Ababsa has directed the Atlas of Jordan. History, Territories, Society (Ifpo 2013), and co-edited with Baudouin Dupret and Eric Denis Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East (University of Cairo Press, 2012) and with Rami Daher, Cities, Urban Practices and Nation Building in Jordan (Ifpo 2011).
She holds a PhD in Geography from the University François Rabelais of Tours (2004) on Raqqa (Syrian Studies Association, Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Special Mention, 2006).