The Middle East in Modern Times

Men have always held the rule in the Middle East based on the concepts of Islam. Subduing women’s right they maintain a tight control on the women and rarely did the women emerge from behind the veil. However, the picture is not as bleak as it may seem. The changing roles of men and women have not been a new feature but women have seen a freedom from cultural bindings for some time. (Esman and Rabinovich 1998)

While the men held the reigns of power women began to seek their own identity. In the years before women and children were considered part of the background. While the male child was given freedom to do as he liked the female child was bound in the same chains of repression that the women were. However, as the roles of the men and women underwent a change the child’s role automatically underwent a transition in society.

In the modern period (beginning with the nineteenth century), the single most important influence on the role of women was the encounter with the West in the form of colonialism. Colonialists wrote much about how "backward" Muslim women were. Yet, in the end, their policies reinforced much of the economic and poli

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