Contact
The Open University of Israel
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4353701
Israel
ABOUT
Noga Efrati is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. A historian of the Middle East, her research focuses on women and gender and on the social, legal, and political history of Iraq. Between 2006 and 2011 she headed the Post-Saddam Iraq Research Group at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Women in Iraq: Past Meets Present (Columbia University Press, 2012), and of many articles concerning women's rights activism in Iraq. She is also the co-editor, with Amnon Cohen, of Post-Saddam Iraq: New Realities, Old Identities, Changing Patterns and, with Ruth Roded, of Women and Gender in the Middle East in the Twentieth Century.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Colonialism
Islamic Law
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
All Middle East
Specialties
Social History
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Hebrew (fluent)
English (fluent)
Abstracts
Joining the Effendiyya? The Case of Paulina Hassun
