Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Start Over Topic Activism Region Middle East

1. An Anatomy of Feminist Resistance: Rebel in the Wilderness

Author: Henriette Dahan Kalev
Publication date: 2019

2. Arab Women's Activism and Socio-political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions

Editor: Sahar Khamis and Amel Mili
Publication date: 2018

3. Bad Girls of the Arab World

Editor: Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas
Publication date: 2017

4. Civil Society and Gender Relations in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes: New Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Case Studies

Editor: Gabriele Wilde, Annette Zimmer, Obuch Katharina, and Isabelle-Christine Panreck
Publication date: 2018

5. Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women's Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon

Author: Nicola Pratt
Publication date: 2020

6. Empowering Women after the Arab Spring

Editor: Marwa Shalaby and Valentine M. Moghadam
Publication date: 2016

7. Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World

Author: Katherine Zoepf
Publication date: 2016

8. Family Law in Contemporary Iran: Women's Rights Activism and Shari'a

Author: Marianne Bøe
Publication date: 2015

9. Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions

Editor: Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime
Publication date: 2016

10. Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime

Author: Dana M. Olwan
Publication date: 2021

11. Girls of Liberty: The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine

Author: Margalit Shilo
Publication date: 2016

12. Islamic Feminisms: Rights and Interpretations across Generations in Iran

Author: Roja Fazaeli
Publication date: 2017

13. Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation

Author: Nelia Hyndman-Rizk
Publication date: 2020

14. The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979

Author: Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor
Publication date: 2025

15. Women Rising: In and beyond the Arab Spring

Editor: Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad
Publication date: 2020

16. Women and Equality in Iran: Law, Society, and Activism

Author: Leila Alikarami
Publication date: 2019

17. Women in Revolutionary Egypt: Gender and the New Geographics of Identity

Author: Shereen Abouelnaga
Publication date: 2016