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The increasing role of women’s fatwa-making in Indonesia

  • Nor Ismah,

Women Islamic scholars are challenging male authority through fatwa-making.

WEBINAR: Taiwan and Australia in the 21st Century

What do we need to know about the conflict between China and Taiwan, and how can we understand Taiwan in relation to Australia?

Rethinking civil society in Afghanistan

  • Dr Salim Lakha,

Western donors and others have not given enough attention to strengthening local civil society actors.

Scholars in Indonesia who speak about the government “will be either co-opted or persecuted.”

  • Cathy Harper,

Is critical academia in Indonesia being undermined?

Taiwan’s first woman president: The paradox of Tsai Ing-wen

  • Professor Antonia Finnane,

Tsai is a symbol of what Taiwan has become: a flourishing democracy that has shown itself capable of electing a woman as president.