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Maya Mikdashi

Maya Mikdashi is assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Gender, Politics and Scholarship—A Roundtable
A demonstration at the Third World Conference on Women, in Nairobi, Kenya, July 1985. (William F. Campbell/Getty Images)
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Gender, Politics and Scholarship—A Roundtable

On March 3, 2025, MERIP and the University of Exeter's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies partnered with Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies to host a roundtable on the past, present and future of feminist approaches to Middle East and North African Studies. The event
Deniz Kandiyoti, Judith Tucker, Mounira Charrad, Suad Joseph, Maya Mikdashi, Nadje Al-Ali • 23 min read