Autore: Mir-Hosseini Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generally accepted conceptions of justice. In Islam, as in …

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable …

In today’s world all eyes are on Iran, which has grappled with an experiment that has had a massive global impact. For some, the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 was the triumph of a modern, political …

Taking an inter-disciplinary approach which straddles law, anthropology sociology and women’s studies, Mir-Hosseini shows how women can turn even the most patriarchal elements of Islamic law to their …