Protecting Women's Agency in the Middle East
In this policy brief published by the Center for War Studies, Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain analyses gender-based violence (GBV) against women and girls in the Middle East and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in particular, focussing on what her research coins the ‘patriarchal trifecta’: forced/arranged marriages, honour-based violence, and female genital mutilation. Her poignant observations and recommendations based on fieldwork with survivors and perpetrators, give decision-makers revelatory insights on the women who continue to suffer in silence.
Dr Shilan Fuad Hussain