WMF Hosts Qatar University’s Research Team in Cairo for a Seminar on Women’s Role in Preserving and Regulating Kinship in Arab Gulf States
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The Women and Memory Forum (WMF) organized a seminar entitled “Women’s Memory: Kinship Ties in the Arab Gulf States,” delivered by a research team from Qatar University. The seminar was held in Cairo on 22 May 2010, and presented the preliminary findings of the team’s research project on matrilineality via breastfeeding in Qatar.
The research team is made up of women students and women faculty members at the departments of Sociology and Anthropology, Qatar University. The four members of the research team who took part in the seminar are Dr. Fadwa al-Jindi, the lead researcher, Dr. Wissam Othman, a faculty member, and the two students Shaikha al-Kuwari and Raneen al-Najjar.
The seminar discussed the pivotal role women play in preserving the memory of matrilineal lineage created by milk-sharing and breastfeeding, and accordingly, how women get to determine and regulate marriage choices, and organize kinship ties between families in the Gulf society.
This project is funded by Qatar University’s Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) award.
