Professor Karima Bennoune will deliver a guest lecture on February 10 in the Department of Middle East/South Asia Studies at UC Davis. The public lecture is titled, "Sidi Bouzid Blues and the Green Wave: Journeys through the Arab Spring and Fall."
The United Nations 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 56) featured as its priority theme this year "the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges." This focus on rural women is long overdue, given that rural women comprise a quarter of the world's population. Further, women provide 43% of the world's agricultural labor, and they produce half of the world's food for direct consumption.
