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  • Contributors

Margot Badran is an historian and women’s studies specialist, a Senior Fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., and a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers University. She has published Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences (Oneworld, 2009) and Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt (Princeton University Press, 1995), and as editor, Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law (Woodrow Wilson Press and Stanford University Press, 2011), and translated, edited, and introduced Harem Years: The Memoirs of An Egyptian Feminist Huda Shaarawi (New York: The Feminist Press, 1984), as well as co-edited, Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing (Indiana University Press, 2004). Her recent essays include “Women and the Art of Revolution in Egypt: Brushes with Women,” in Women and Art in the Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society (Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art, 2012) edited by Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin and “Egypt’s Revolution and the New Feminism” in The Immanent Frame (posted on Mar. 3, 2011). She is presently working on a book on women activists and artists in the ongoing Egyptian revolution.

Marilyn Booth holds the Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and is Joint Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW). She recently edited Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces (Duke University Press, 2010) and is writing a book on Zaynab Fawwaz and the politics of gender in late nineteenth-century Egypt, as well as a monograph on autobiographical practices amongst Arab women, 1880s–1930s. Her last monograph was May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (University of California Press, 2001). She is Middle East and Europe Area Editor for the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, and serves as a trustee or board member of various institutions, journals, and publication series in the U.S., U.K., and Egypt. She is a prolific translator of Arabic fiction and “translation activist” in projects to foster emerging translators and translation dissemination. [End Page 189]

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent books are A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles (Duke University Press, 2012) and Brown Over Black: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation (New Delhi: Three Essays Collective, 2012).

Sadaf Jaffer is a doctoral candidate in the Indo-Muslim Culture Program of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the intellectual, literary, and cultural history of Modern South Asia and Islamicate societies. Her dissertation, entitled “Social Justice in Islamicate South Asia: Ismat Chughtai’s Feminist Intellectual Cosmopolitanism, 1911–1991,” reveals emerging patterns of intellectual exchange and expression in the late colonial and post-colonial periods of twentieth-century India. Within this context, Jaffer analyzes Urdu writer and Indian intellectual Ismat Chughtai’s efforts to advocate for progressive social change within transnational literary circles and the cosmopolitan milieu of Bombay Cinema.

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the history of women, gender, and Islam in South Asia with a current project on changing notions of the self in Muslim women’s autobiographical writing. Her publications include Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal (Routledge, 2007), A Princess’s Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begum’s Account of Haj (Indiana University Press, 2008), Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia (co-edited with Avril A. Powell) (Oxford University Press, 2006), and Atiya’s Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain (with Sunil Sharma) (Oxford University Press, 2010), and, co-edited with Anshu Malhotra, Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance and Autobiography in South Asia (forthcoming). Recently, she has also lead the international research network, “Women’s Autobiography in Islamic Societies” (http://www.waiis.org) and a related teaching project...

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