Contributors
- Contributors
A. Holly Shissler is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Between Two Empires: Ahmet Ağaoğlu and the New Turkey (2003) and various articles including “Beauty Is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of: Beauty Contests as Tools of Women’s Liberation in Early Republican Turkey” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (2004).
Hoda Elsadda holds the Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University. She was a co-founder and co-editor of Hagar, an interdisciplinary journal of women’s studies published in Arabic (1992-98), and co-founder of the Women and Memory Forum. Her work in English includes “Gendered Citizenship: Discourses on Domesticity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century” in Hawwa (2006).
Nadia Yaqub (Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley) is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: T e Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee (2006).
Roksana Bahramitash (Ph.D., Sociology, McGill University) is a writer and researcher based at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University. She is the author of Liberation from Liberalization: Gender and Globalization in Southeast Asia (2005) and producer of the documentary film Beyond the Burqa (2004). She is currently conducting research on Globalization, Islamism, and Women in Iran, supported by a three-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
