Mapping Production of Knowledge on Women and Gender in the Arab Region
Access 20,000 articles on Women and Gender in the Arab Region
Mapping the Production of Knowledge (MPK) on Women and Gender in the Arab Region is delighted to announce the launching of the MPK Database. The MPK database lists approximately 20,000 academic references on women and gender in the Arab region published from 1970-2022.
The focus of the database is on socialities under the following six broad thematics:
- Class, race, minority, ethnicity, tribe, family, kin, care work and social networks;
- Media and popular culture;
- Religion;
- Sexuality and the body;
- Social consequences of war, displacement, migration, violence, and precarity;
- Space and Socialities.
The free, publicly available, searchable database takes you directly to articles for the key words searched. If your university or organization subscribes to the platform from which the reference was listed, you will have direct access to the article itself. If your organization does not subscribe to the platform from which the article was listed, you will still be able to see the reference and an abstract, if an abstract was available. The MPK database will facilitate comparative analysis on diverse topics covering over half a century of research on women and gender in the Arab region. It is the first such database.
The MPK database is a project of the University of California, Davis Arab Region Consortium, in partnership with the Arab Council for the Social Sciences. The team for MPK came from the UCDAR partner universities: American University of Beirut, American University in Cairo, Lebanese American University, Birzeit University, American University of Sharja and the University of California, Davis. MPK was funded by the Open Society Foundation, Amman, Jordan.
Analyses of the findings developed by the MPK team will be published on the MPK website, as well as appropriate journals. The website for the MPK database has full instructions for the use of the database. For technical problems, kindly consult the Arab Council for the Social Science: Wassim Alam (alam@theacss.org) or Tamara Tell (tell@theacss.org).
MPK Team
- Jo Abillama, Lebanese American University
- Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, American University of Sharjah
- Christie Choueiri, American University of Beirut
- Suad Joseph, UC Davis
- Meghan Klasic, University of Minnesota
- Lena Meari, Birzeit University
- Sara Mourad, American University of Beirut
- Martina Rieker, American University of Cairo
- Zina Sawaf, Lebanese American University
- Zaina Zarour, Researcher/Translator