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Iraqi Women: Beyond Dictatorship, War, Sanctions and Occupation
Virtual Zoom Lecture
No preregistration required
Friday, May 27
2:15 PM

Nadje Al-Ali
Robert Family Professor of International Studies
Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies
Director of the Center for Middle East Studies
Brown University
Sponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Program

Nadje Al-Ali is Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor
of Anthropology and Middle East Studies. Her main research interests revolve
around feminist activism and gendered mobilization, with a focus on Iraq,
Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and the Kurdish political movement. Her publications
include What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (2009,
University of California Press, co-authored with Nicola Pratt); Women and War
in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives (Zed Books, 2009, co-edited with
Nicola Pratt); Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed
Books), and Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East (Cambridge
University Press 2000. Her co-edited book with Deborah al-Najjar entitled We
are Iraqis: Aesthetics & Politics in a Time of War (Syracuse University Press)
won the 2014 Arab-American book prize for non-fiction. Professor Al-Ali is on
the advisory board of kohl: a journal of body and gender research and has been
involved in several feminist organizations and campaigns transnationally.

Join via Zoom:
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/91488133632?pwd=bllFVnAyRmhMQVhRcytVdGpmM09pUT09

For more info, contact Hussein.Kadhim@Dartmouth.Edu