Muslim Women in War and Crisis: Representation and Reality

Contributors

Contributors Lina Abirafeh received a Ph.D. in development studies from the London School of Economics . She worked in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2006 as director of an international NGO and senior gender officer for a UN agency. Abirafeh currently serves as senior gender adviser for an international agency in Papua New Guinea. Fauzia Ahmad is an honorary research fellow and consultant based in the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, U.K. Syaʿafatun Almirzanah has been chief associate professor of comparative religions at the Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, since 1990. Shamita Basu received a Ph.D. from the School of International Development Studies, Roskilde University, in Roskilde, Denmark. Her thesis deals with the relationship between religion and nationalism in the advent of modernity in colonial India. Nada S. Fuleihan holds a master’s degree in history from the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon. She teaches French and writes children’s literature. Abbas Kadhim holds a Ph.D. in Islamic studies from the University of California, Berkeley , with a specialization in Islamic theology and ethics. He is currently a visiting lecturer of Islam at Stanford University. Carol Mann holds a doctorate in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. In 2001 she created FemAid, a Paris-based nonprofit organization working with Afghan women and children in Pakistani refugee camps and serving children in Pakistan as well. Nadia Marzouki is a visiting fellow at Princeton University and a doctoral candidate in political science, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. Her scholarly focus includes policies and discourses about Islam—in France and in the United States. She has also served as lecturer in political science at the École Polytechnique, Paris. Ángeles Ramírez holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Social Anthropology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she teaches today. She is associate researcher at the 296 MusliM WoMen in War and Crisis Center for Mediterranean Studies at Universidad Autónoma and at the Center for International Migration and Integration. Omar Sacirbey received an M.S. degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York. He is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and has written articles for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and other major publications. Nada Shabout is an associate professor of art history at the University of North Texas at Denton. Her primary area of research is contemporary Arabic art and, specifically, the metamorphosis of the Arabic letter. Faegheh Shirazi is an associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies Program, at the University of Texas–Austin. Zilka Spahić-Šiljak received a Ph.D. from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She is a human rights and Islamic feminist scholar, researcher, and activist. She also holds a law degree from the University of Sarajevo. Rita Stephan is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Texas–Austin. She serves as a lecturer at the University of Texas–Austin and at St. Edward’s University, Austin. Stephan’s special field of interest is political sociology with a focus on women and gender studies. Sara Struckman is a Ph.D. candidate in journalism at the University of Texas–Austin. Her primary research interests include the media’s role in social change and gender representations. ...