Mapping Arab Women's Movements by Pernille Arenfeldt

My research to date has focused on women’s and gendered mobilizations in the Middle East (Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and the Kurdish regions) as well as the gendered dimensions of transnational migration and diaspora mobilization (with reference to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq and the Kurdish political movement). International and Public Affairs Research Areas.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. 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. 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), Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2000) and more recently a co-edited book with Deniz Kandiyoti and Kathryn Spellman entitled Gender, Governance and Islam (University of Edinburgh Press, 2020).

Her main research interests revolve around feminist activism and gendered mobilization, mainly with reference to Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and the Kurdish political movement. She is currently Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University. Nadje Al-Ali is Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies.

Mapping Arab Women's Movements by Pernille Arenfeldt