Gema Martín-Muñoz

Gema Martín-Muñoz is Professor of the Sociology of the Arab and Islamic World at the Autonoma University of Madrid. She is the author of El Estado Arabe: Crisis de legitimidad y contestación islamista (Barcelona, Edicions Bellaterra, 1999), and editor of Islam, Modernism and the West (London, IB Tauris, 1999).

Islam's women under Western eyes

International events suffer peculiarly from the impact of the mass media on the formation of ‘public opinion’. Unlike home reporting, there are no alternative channels to balance the ‘message’. The

By Gema Martín-Muñoz

/ 8 Oct 2002

Arab states, Islamism and the West

In pointing to the undeniably negative aspects of Arab and Muslim societies, a simplistic Western view explains them away as the inevitable consequences of Islamic determinism. It insists on linking

By Gema Martín-Muñoz

/ 18 Jun 2002