Virtual Talk: "In Iraq and in the World Today, to Defend Gender is to Refuse Violence"

The CSULB Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, in collaboration with the Institute for Feminist Studies & Social Action at CSUN and the Center for Feminist Research at USC, invites you and your students to a virtual talk by Dr. Zahra Ali titled “In Iraq and in the World Today, to Defend Gender is to Refuse Violence” on April 10, 11.30 am – 12.45 pm PST.

 

Zoom ID: 835 5387 6725

Zoom Password: 830308

 

Speaker Bio: Dr. Zahra Ali’s research explores women and gender issues in relation to Islam and the Middle East, as well as contemporary Muslim communities and Islamisms. Her recent research explores contemporary Iraqi women’s activism through an in-depth ethnography of post-2003 Iraqi women’s political groups conducted in Baghdad, Erbil, and Sulaymaniyah and a study of women’s social, economic, and political experiences since the formation of the Iraqi state. Her book Women and Gender in Iraq: between Nation-building and Fragmentation will be published by Cambridge University Press in Spring 2018. She also edited Féminismes Islamiques, the first collection on Muslim feminist scholarship published in France (La Fabrique editions, 2012), translated and published in German (Passagen Verlag, 2014).