Fatiha Talahite

Gender, Law, and Property Rights in the Middle East: Towards A Gendered Perspective of Property Rights in the Middle East

Gendered access to rights of property ownership and its exploitation are linked to explicit and implicit priorities and proclivities of a given society. Considering the situation from an intersectorial perspective and one which takes into account a non-linear long-term historical approach which necessarily includes changes over time which are firmly anchored within historical movements,1 the question of gender-specific prerogatives or lack of them regarding rights of property ownership and its use reveals points of convergence where this type of activity is possible for both women and men. Likewise, this transhistorical approach points to sectors where institutionalized and custo mary law prohibited, permitted, or favored gender-specific real-estate ownership and its exploitation. Hence, the development of various gendered strategies devised and deployed by women and men in order to gain, retain, or prohibit control over rights of property ownership and exploitation.

Paradigme de L’état rentier dans la région MENA

Le concept de rente elabore et mis en oeuvre pour les pays de la region MENA allie une definition sommaire de la rente, comme revenu exterieur, a la theorie de l’Etat neo-patrimonial. Si la science politique emprunte largement a l’economie la notion de rente a travers la theorie de l’Etat rentier, l’economie elle-meme n’y a recours que de maniere moderee. Une remise en cause de cette theorie s’impose.