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Masserat Amir-Ebrahimi studied Urban Sociology and Human, Economic, and Regional Geography at the University of Paris X–Nanterre (Ph.D., 1999). She has worked on urban and sociocultural projects in Iran and taught in the Environmental Department at Tehran University (2001–03). She was awarded an International Collaborative Research Grant by the Social Science Research Council Program on the Middle East and North Africa for her project, “Authority and Public Space in Iran” (2002–03). She was scientific and executive coordinator of the Atlas of Tehran Metropolis (2005). In 2006–07 she was a Keddie Balzan Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 2002 she has been an Associated Researcher with Le Monde Iranien et Indien, CNRS–Paris. Her research focuses primarily on Tehran, women, youth, public space, the public sphere, cyberspace, and weblogging.

Beth Baron is Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2007. She authored Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics (2005) and The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press (1994), and coedited Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (1991) and Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (2000). Baron has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson and Ford Foundations. She cofounded and codirects the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at CUNY Graduate Center, and also directs MEMEAC’s new M.A. program in Middle East Studies. [End Page 137]

Nikki R. Keddie, Professor Emerita of History, taught at the University of Arizona and Scripps College before coming to the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1961, where she has remained. Among her many books are Religion and Rebellion in Iran: The Tobacco Protest of 18911892 (1966); Sayyid Jamal ad-Din Al-Afghani: A Political Biography (1972); Qajar Iran and the Rise of Reza Khan (1999); Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution (2003, 2006), and Women in the Middle East: Past and Present (2007). Among her many coedited works are Women in the Muslim World (1978) and Women in Middle Eastern History (1991). She has chaired twenty Ph.D.s, nearly all of whom have good jobs and have published scholarly books. She has received several major lifetime awards and prizes, including the International Balzan Foundation prize which enabled her to finance six Balzan postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA.

Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton. She specializes in the modern Middle East. Her publications include journal articles and chapters in edited collections. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on education and gender in modern Iran.

A. Holly Shissler is Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies 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), and an earlier article on Sabiha Sertel’s advice column, “If You Ask Me,” in JMEWS (2007). [End Page 138]

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