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Frances S. Hasso is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology, and Director of the Program in International Comparative Studies, at Duke University. She is working on a book-length research project titled “‘Civic’ and ‘Space’ as Fields of Meaning and Practice in Contemporary Egypt.” She is co-editing with Zakia Salime (Rutgers University) a book collection titled “Geographies of Gender in the Arab Revolutions,” which will include a chapter from her recent research on the Pearl Revolution in Bahrain. Hasso’s publications include Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2011), Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan (Syracuse University Press, 2005), “Empowering Governmentalities Rather than Women: The AHDR 2005 and Western Development Logics” in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (2009), and “Discursive & Political Deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers/Martyrs” in Feminist Review (2005). She is forthcoming co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.

Farrah Jafari earned her Ph.D. in the school of Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, where she worked as a Persian language instructor. Jafari’s dissertation applied ethnographic research conducted throughout Turkish satellite cities and considers the effects of sexual orientation-based persecution of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey and the interaction of United Nations and Turkish state powers vis-à-vis this diasporic community. Her research interests include youth culture and reform in Iran, queer migration, feminism and Islam, body politics, Islamic modernism, and social memory. Jafari’s latest project is a publication of her dissertation, Silencing Sexuality: [End Page 167] LGBT Refugees and the Public-Private Divide in Iran and Turkey. This is her first publication.

Sophia Pandya is Associate Professor at California State University, Long Beach, in the Department of Religious Studies. A Fulbright Scholar, she specializes in women and Islam. Pandya is the author of Muslim Women and Islamic Resurgence: Religion, Education and Identity Politics in Bahrain (I.B. Tauris, 2012) and co-editor (with Nancy Gallagher) of The Gülen Hizmet Movement and its Transnational Activities: Case Studies of Altruistic Activism in Contemporary Islam (BrownWalker Press, 2012), about the pursuits of a Turkish Sufi group at the international level. Pandya’s first essay in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (Winter 2009) is entitled “Religious Change among Yemeni Women: The New Popularity of ‘Amr Khaled” and examines younger, educated Yemeni women and their preference of an Egyptian televangelist over their mothers’ religious practices. Pandya received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Near Eastern Studies, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Religious Studies.

Catherine Sawers is an actor, screenwriter, film scholar, and poet living in Los Angeles, CA. Before receiving her Master’s degree in Film Studies from the University of Edinburgh, she studied Economics at Duke University, specializing in research in geopolitical history. “The Women of Bataille d’Alger: Hearts and Minds and Bombs” was inspired by her Master’s thesis. “The Partisan” is her original translation and adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1948 play, Les Mains sales, and it was a finalist for the FilmMakers International Screenplay Award. Sawers has published critique and poems in The Flaneur, and the film review, “A Snowman’s Chance in Hell,” was a Cineaste Web Exclusive in Winter 2012.

Katja Žvan Elliott is Assistant Professor in Political Science/North African and Middle East Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. She is currently preparing a monograph in which she takes a critical approach to the reformed Moroccan Family Code as the symbol of the country’s professed progress in the realm of women’s rights. In addition to this, her research [End Page 168] interests include the impact of higher education on Moroccan girls from provincial areas and sexual violence against women. She received her D.Phil. in Oriental Studies from Oxford University in 2012. [End Page 169]

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