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Women Waiting to Vote in Iraqi Elections, 2005
In the vast majority of countries in the Middle East women have the right to vote. Turkey, for example, extended the right to vote to women in 1934. In Iraq women’s suffrage has existed since 1948. In those countries that have not extended the right to vote to women things are changing. Since 2000, five countries (Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates) have instituted women’s suffrage.
Pilgrims Gather Outside the Mosque of Imam Husayn, Karbala’, Iraq
Name: Women Waiting to Vote in Iraqi Elections
Material: Digital Photograph
Size: 600 X 450 (109 KB)
Date: 2005
Place of Origin: Iraq
Source and Registration#: Wikimedia Commons. Link to resource
(accessed May 4, 2010).
Orit Bashkin
Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Chicago
