On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era

By The Feminist Press at CUNY

This revised edition of the 2005 book will include a new introduction about the expansion of new media and the mobilization of new technologies and its impact on women and youth in the Middle East, particularly in Egypt and Iran.

Two new essays:

"Defying Marginality: Young Women's Politics and Social Media in the Middle East" by Lobule Hanna Skalli, a well-known scholar with a forthcoming book from Columbia University Press in 2014, writes about new technologies in North Africa.

[other essay tk]

Increasing interest in the status of women in the Middle East.

Contributor Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.

Middle-Eastern female journalists on Al-Jazeera are exploding stereotypes of what it means to be a modern Muslim woman.

Contributor Zainah Anwar spoke about the need for Islamic law reform and the activist group, Sisters in Islam in Malaysia, at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding luncheon. Video can be found at http://vimeo.com/55365713

Contributor Mehrangiz Kar is one of Iran’s leading human rights defenders, legal scholars, and feminist activists. She’s banned from making public appearances in Iran. She has previously been arrested for acting against the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran and might soon be arrested again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Release date: Sep 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781558618565