ABSTRACT
Women economists have been present since the mid-twentieth century in obtaining advanced economics degrees, in university teaching, in research and publication, and in government service in the Arab Homeland. In research studying numerous maps of the "Middle East" published from within the region, Karen Culcasi translates the commonly used term as the "Arab Homeland". One can easily deduce that the Arab Homeland includes the states of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen. As the first nation to include female students in higher education, along with a historical context of social progressiveness, Lebanon holds the record for the earliest observed involvement of Arab female economists. Al-Azhar University in Egypt is a well-renowned Islamic university which practices gender segregation, and, like Saudi Arabia, provides the specialized labor demand for female faculty in Egypt. Apart from the discipline of Islamic economics, the business school at Al-Azhar University includes a gender-segregated economics department.
