Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS miriam COOke is Professor of Arab Culture at Duke University. She has published about women and war in the postcolonial Arab world and also about Islamic feminism. Her books include War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the tañese Civil War (1988); Women and the War Story (1997); and Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature (2001). She has coedited several volumes, including Opening the Gates: A Century ofArab Feminist Writing, Gendering War Talk, Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War, and Muslim Networks: From Hajj to Hip Hop (coedited with Bruce Lawrence 2005). She has also published a novel, Hayati, My Life. ELLEN GRUENBAUM holds degrees in Anthropology from Stanford University and the University of Connecticut. She spent several years in Sudan in the 1970s and has returned several times for her long-term research on Muslim women and health. She is currently Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at California State University, Fresno. Dr. Gruenbaum served on the Committee for Human Rights of the American Anthropological Association. She is author of The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective. FIROOZEH KASHANI-SABET is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked extensively on nationalism in Iran, and her book, Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 18041946 (1999), looks at the centrality of frontiers, land, and geography in 'Iranian nationalism. She is currently completing two academic projects. The first, "Unveiling Women's Lives: Science, Sexuality, and JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN'S STUDIES VoL 1, No. 2 (Spring 2005). O 2005 166 ea JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN'S STUDIES Religion in Modern," documents the social and cultural history ofIranian women from the late nineteenth century until the establishment of the Islamic Republic. The second, "The Making of the 'Great Satan': A Study of US-Islamic Relations," explores the origins ofAmerica's relationship with the Islamic East in the nineteenth century and the evolution ofthis association in the next century. Having grown up in Lebanon, JENNIFER C. OLMSTED has long been interested in Middle East economies and more broadly in feminist concerns related to globalization. She has written about the Palestinian, Egyptian, and US economies, and has also examined the impact orientalist thought has had on the discipline of economics. Her publications have appeared in various journals, including Feminist Economics and World Development. Jennifer served as the editor of the Middle East Women's Studies Review and on the AMEWS board for six years. She is currently an associate professor of economics at Drew University. SARAH S. WILLEN is a PhD/MPH candidate in the Departments of Anthropology and Global Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a 2004-2005 Fellow at the Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health. Her current ethnographic research examines two aspects of transnational migration in Israel: configurations and experiences of "illegality" among undocumented West African and Filipino migrant workers in Tel Aviv, and how Israeli human rights and humanitarian organizations have imagined, constructed, and responded to the phenomenon of so-called "illegal" migration. She has been both a Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Graduate Fellow and a Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she has presented her research, in English and Hebrew, at academic conferences in Israel, Europe, and the United States. Her work has appeared in the Revue Européene des Migrations Internationales, and she is currently editing an interdisciplinary volume titled Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context, forthcoming from Lexington Books. ...