Contributors
- Contributors
Stephanie Willman Bordat has served as director of Global Rights’ Morocco-based office since its creation in 2000 and, in 2003, designed and expanded it into a regional program. Prior to joining Global Rights, Bordat worked for NGOs in Pakistan, Egypt, and the Netherlands, where she conducted fieldwork and legal research on women’s human rights issues. She has volunteered as a prostitute outreach worker and a translator in political asylum proceedings in New York City and as a sexual assault crisis counsellor in Philadelphia. She also worked as a law clerk for the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission in Washington, D.C. Bordat was a Fulbright Scholar at the Université Mohammed V in Rabat, where she studied Islamic family law, personal status codes, and the status of women in Morocco. She holds law degrees with honors from both Columbia Law School in New York and the Université Paris I-Sorbonne in France. Bordat is a member of the New York Bar Association and is fluent in French, the Moroccan dialect of Arabic, and Spanish.
Susan Schaefer Davis is an anthropologist with extensive experience as a development practitioner. Her work focuses on gender in North Africa and Palestine for agencies including the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization, United States Agency for International Development, and the American Friends Service Committee. Davis has held teaching or research positions at Haverford College, the University of Pennsylvania, Al Akhawayn University in Morocco, Trenton State College, and Rutgers University, with work focusing on Moroccan women and adolescence. She has written numerous articles and two books, Patience and Power: Women’s Lives in a Moroccan Village (Schenkman Books, 1983) and Adolescence in a Moroccan Town: Making Social [End Page 129] Sense (Rutgers, 1989). The website www.marrakeshexpress.org shares her knowledge of Moroccan textiles. Davis considers the non-profit section “Women Weavers OnLine” her personal development project in Morocco. It puts weavers in two villages in direct touch with their customers and educates customers about the lives of these women. Davis received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan and did post-doctoral work at Harvard University.
Esther Juhasz teaches Jewish folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the University of Haifa in Israel. She specializes in the fields of material and visual culture in the Jewish context and has published articles on various related aspects, such as Jewish dress. Juhasz is the editor and principal author of Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire: Aspects of Material Culture (Israel Museum, 1990). She also serves as the scientific advisor to the Israel Museum Wing of Jewish Art and Life.
Saida Kouzzi is an attorney and has worked with Global Rights’ Morocco program since its creation in 2000. As regional legal officer, she plays a pivotal role in crafting and implementing training programs on women’s human rights issues and institutional development strategies, coordinating action-research projects, designing advocacy campaigns, and facilitating working groups of local NGO representatives. Kouzzi has also advocated on behalf of Moroccan women at the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva and has represented the Global Rights Maghreb office in regional and global fora in Egypt, Jordan, and Malaysia. Prior to joining Global Rights, Kouzzi worked for five years as a jurist at one of Morocco’s most reputable human rights law offices, where her work centered on cases involving women and family law. She was also the president and founder of L’Espace de la femme pour la solidarite et le dévelopement, a Rabat-based NGO that addressed women’s development. Kouzzi holds a law degree from Université Mohammed V in Rabat, where she wrote her thesis on political Islam in the Sudan. She is fluent in Arabic, French, and English.
Hagar Salamon is head of the Jewish and Comparative Folklore program and the Africa Unit at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, [End Page 130] Israel. Her research focuses on cultural perceptions of Ethiopian Jews in both Ethiopia and Israel, women’s expressive culture and life stories, and present-day Israeli folklore. She is the author of The Hyena...
