Sep 10: Lecture on Muslim Women at Duquesne

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 10

Lecture/Forum-Mohja Kahf, "Gender Justice and the Discourse on Muslim Women: Getting Past the Pity Committee"
3:00 pm
Duquesne University, 607 Fisher Hall

Mohja Kahf will give a lecture entitled "Gender Justice and the Discourse on Muslim Women: Getting Past the Pity Committee," on Western typecasting of Arab women. Kahf is the author of the novel The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Carroll & Graf, 2006), the poetry collection E-mails from Scheherazad (University Press of Florida, 2003), and a scholarly book Western Representations of the Muslim Woman (University of Texas Press, 1999). She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of English and in the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program at the University of Arkansas. For more information, contact Magali Cornier Michael - michael@duq.edu

Sponsored by: Duquesne University, English Department and Women's & Gender Studies Program