Autor: Valentine M. Moghadam

Marwa Shalaby is the Fellow for the Middle East and Director of the Women“s Rights in the Middle East Program at James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, USA. Her research focuses on comparative politics and research methodology, with a concentration on Middle Eastern politics, gender politics, and democratization. Valentine M. Moghadam is Director of the International Affairs Program, and Professor of Sociology, at Northeastern University, USA. Born in Tehran, Iran, Dr. Moghadam studied in Canada and the U.S.  She is the author of Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993, 2003, 2013), Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (2005, winner of the American Political Science Association“s Victoria Schuck Award), and Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement (2009, 2013).