Nationality and Cases of Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa the father is Palestinian.95 In Jordan, this activity also surrounds the campaign for gender equality in nationality rights but it has yet to lead to policy reform.96 On the other hand, the Arab Revolution is also the context in which there has been an increase in the use of powers of denationalisation for political ends, including the silence political opponents97. Moreover, inherent in the very ideology of the Arab Revolution and its call for more effective participation of the populous in political decision-making, is an increased tension on the nexus of nationality. With plenty of new elections and a potentially more effective democratic system coming into place, nationality becomes far more meaningful and important because it is the ticket to participation in the postRevolution forms of government. As such, there may yet be further changes to nationality policy stemming from the Arab Revolution. 95 - Press release issued by CRTD-A following the adoption of Decree 1231 and published on the website of the Women’s Learning Partnership at: http:// www.learningpartnership.org/lib/post-revolution-egypt-establishes-rightwomen-married-palestinians-pass-nationality-children-1 96 - In Jordan, a struggle for gender equality, New York Times Online, 30 November 2011, available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/world/ middleeast/in-jordan-a-struggle-for-gender-equality.html?pagewanted=all&_ r=0. 97 - This is the case, for instance, in Bahrain and UAE. See Human Rights Watch, Bahrain: Don’t arbitrarily revoke citizenship, 8 November 2012, available at:http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/08/bahrain-don-t-arbitrarily-revokecitizenship; Z. Albarazi, Denationalising Bahrainis, ousting the opposition, 16 November 2012, available at: http://statelessprog.blogspot.nl/2012/11/ denationalizing-bahrainis-ousting.html. 78