Greetings,
Shireen Ebadi, 56 years old lawyer from Iran got the Noble Price in Peace and she is due to receive her prize in Oslo by 10th of Dec. 2003. Since the annoucement of this news there have been great many heated debates and clashes in Iran pro and against Shireen and what she (and her like-minded colleagues) stands for. Do yo think this could strengthen the anti-systemic stance of Iranian establishment or on the contrary create an apt opportunity for the reformists to decentralize the power of conservatives within Iran? In any case it seems this prize has brought great many chances for the Feminist Movement within an Islamic Revolutionary context and may have immense consequences in neighboring Caucasian-Central Asian countries (such as Azerbijan, Tajikestan, Kazakistan, Uzebkistan and etc where Muslim women have been trapped between two extreme choices of modernism versus traditionalism) and Turkey as well as Arab, Indian sub-contient and Indo-Malaysian Archipelago and to certain extend on the very vocabulary of Feminism and Islam both in Europe and US. Of course, the scenario is far from complete and it seems it is a cumbersome work in progress, in particular in terms of its domino effect upon Caucasian-Central Asian as well as Turkish contexts.
kind regards