Keywords
Empowerment
Arab women
higher education
Arab women
higher education
Abstract
Given my background in higher education and women and politics, I have long assumed that it was a fact that higher education empowered women. “Knowledge is power” was the saying that came to mind most readily. Yet this issue of Al- Raida has forced me to reconsider this assumption, to both positive and negative ends.
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