REFUGEE RESEARCH CENTRE SEMINARS, SEMESTER B, 2007-08
IN COOPERATION WITH
CENTRE ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONFLICT
May 7, 2008, 4:30 – 6 pm, Room EB.G05, East Building, UEL Docklands Campus
Dr Nadje Al-Ali
Director, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London, will give a talk entitled:
‘What kind of Liberation? Diaspora Mobilization, Women's Rights and Violence in Post-Invasion Iraq’
Nadje Al-Ali is Director in Gender Studies, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS. Her main research interests revolve around gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle East; transnational migration and diaspora moblization; war, conflict and reconstruction. Her publications include Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed Books); New Approaches to Migration (ed. Routledge, 2002); Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2000) and Gender Writing – Writing Gender (The American University in Cairo Press, 1994) and as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. Her forthcoming book (co-authored with Nicola Pratt) is entitled What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation in Iraq (University of California Press). She is also a founding member of Act Together: Women’s Action for Iraq. (www.acttogether.org ) and a member of Women in Black UK.
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