Introduction: Deconstructing Women's Empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa.- 1 Domestic Violence Laws in the U.A.E: A Religious Argument for Criminalizing Domestic Violence.- 2 Contextualizing the Legal Change: Addressing Normative Paradigms and the Constraints on Equal Rights for Women in the Arab World.- 3 Kin-Based Values and Attitudes Towards Gender Equality in Morocco and Egypt.- 4 No Agency Without Grassroots Autonomy: Exploring a Framework for Evaluating the Substance of Women's Political Inclusion across the Kingdoms of Jordan, Bahrain, and Morocco.- 5 What Islamic Feminists Want: Lessons from the Kuwaiti Experience.- 6 Interest and Exposure?Based Explanations for Egalitarian Attitudes in the Arab World.- 7 Syrian and Syrian Palestinian Women in Lebanon: 'Actors of Citizenship'?.- 8 Post Arab Spring Transformations: In Need of Feminine Politics.- 9 Women and Democracy after the Arab Spring: Theory, Practice and Prospects.