Gender, Law, and Property Rights in the Middle East: Towards A Gendered Perspective of Property Rights in the Middle East.

Gendered access to rights of property ownership and its exploitation are linked to explicit and implicit priorities and proclivities of a given society. Considering the situation from an intersectorial perspective and one which takes into account a non-linear long-term historical approach which necessarily includes changes over time which are firmly anchored within historical movements,1 the question of gender-specific prerogatives or lack of them regarding rights of property ownership and its use reveals points of convergence where this type of activity is possible for both women and men. Likewise, this transhistorical approach points to sectors where institutionalized and customary law prohibited, permitted, or favored gender-specific real-estate ownership and its exploitation. Hence, the development of various gendered strategies devised and deployed by women and men in order to gain, retain, or prohibit control over rights of property ownership and exploitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]