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Mapping Arab Womens Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within/ Pernille Arenfeldt and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley.Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012
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1. Women, Arab
I. Arenfeldt, PernilleII. Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan
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Designed by Adam el-Sehemy
To all the women and the men who have worked to enhance gender justice in the Arab region, and to all the scholars who have documented their great work
Nadje Al-Ali is professor of gender studies and chair of the Centre for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is currently president of the Association of Middle East Womens Studies (AMEWS). Her publications include Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Womens Movement, Cambridge Middle East Studies 14 (2000), Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007), and (with Nicola Pratt) What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation in Iraq (2009).
Pernille Arenfeldt is assistant professor of history, Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Her scholarly interests are centered on two areas: women and gender in the modern Middle East, especially the Gulf countries; and women and gender in early modern Europe, particularly the German-speaking territories and Scandinavia. She co-edited (with Regina Schulte, et al.) the essay collection titled The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 15002000 (2006) and has published widely on women and gender in early modern Europe. During the summer semester of 2011, she held the Marie Jahoda Visiting Chair in International Womens Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany.
Amel Nejib al-Ashtal is a graduate student at Columbia University, pursuing an MS in public policy. She graduated magna cum laude from the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, with a BS in management information systems and minors in international studies and womens studies. She volunteers for the global solidarity network Women Living under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and is active in the online community through participation in advocacy networks and discussion fora. She also runs an activist group on Facebook that focuses on raising awareness about womens issues in Yemen.
Ibtesam Al-Atiyat has been an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College in Minnesota since January 2010. Prior to that she held teaching positions at the German Jordanian University and served as a senior program director at the Jordanian National Commission for Women in Amman, Jordan.
Nawar Al-Hassan Golley is associate professor in literary and critical theory and womens studies at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Al-Hassan Golley is the author of Reading Arab Womens Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells Her Story (2003) and editor of Arab Womens Lives Retold: Exploring Identity through Writing (2007). She has presented several papers at international conferences, such as the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, published many articles in prestigious scholarly journals, and translated several literary and critical works by writers such as Adonis, Edward Said, Etel Adnan, and others. Her research interests are in critical and literary theory, colonial and post-colonial literatures and discourses, feminism and womens studies, Arab womens writings, autobiography, and modern Arabic literature.
Eileen Kuttab is assistant professor in sociology and the founder and director of the Institute of Womens Studies at Birzeit University from 1999 to 2008. As a woman activist, she has been involved with grass-roots womens organizations and has served on boards of trustees of human rights and development research centers. Her main research interests center on different issues, including the relation of feminism and nationalism, the womens movement, and gender and development, especially womens work in the informal sector. She has published widely in these areas. Her current work is on Palestinian youth, gender, and political participation, and empowerment paradigms.
Leslie Lewis is a lecturer in the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of California at San Diego, and associate faculty member in the Anthropology Department at MiraCosta College. She is a former research fellow at the Institute for Gender and Womens Studies at the American University in Cairo, and a recipient of a National Science Foundation grant for her ethnographic research in Egypt. In additional to her work in Egypt, she has undertaken research in Central America and the northeast United States. Her publishing credits include academic articles, book chapters and reviews, co-authorship of The Academic Game (2005), and authorship of a book entitled The Cairo Chronicles (2008). She lives in San Diego, California.
Vnia Carvalho Pinto is a faculty member at the Institute of International Relations in the University of Braslia in Brazil. She studied in Portugal (Coimbra), the Netherlands (Leiden), the United Kingdom (Exeter), and Germany (Hildesheim). She held a visiting researcher position at the Supreme Council of Family Affairs in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates from 2007 to 2008, and lectured at both the University of Exeter, from 2005 to 2006, and the University of Hildesheim in 2009. She is the author of the book chapter Women and Political Participation in the United Arab Emirates, in Diversity and Female Political Participation: Views on and from the Arab World, edited by the Heinrich Bll Foundation (2010), the chapter on Arab States in Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview, edited by Gretchen Bauer and Manon Tremblay (2011), and of Nation, State, and the Genderframing of Womens Rights in the United Arab Emirates (19712009) (forthcoming).
Helen Rizzo is associate professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo. Her research interests include political sociology, with a focus on democratization, development and the Middle East, and stratification, particularly gender and race/ethnic inequality. She has published numerous articles on public opinion, citizenship rights, and the democratization process in Kuwait. She is the author of Islam, Democracy and the Status of Women: The Case of Kuwait (2005). She is currently working with colleagues on a National Security Foundation Human and Social Dynamics grant project examining the dissent/repression nexus in the Middle East.
Hanadi Al-Samman
