Shahrzad Mojab

Shahrzad Mojab

Shahrzad Mojab is a prominent Iranian Kurdish [http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/press/grantee-news/2003/mojab-prize.html ] [http://www.womennet.ca/news.php?show&678 Womennet.ca! The Canadian Women's Directory of Resources and Information in Canada ] ] scholar and researcher. She was born in Shiraz and received her PhD from University of Illinois. She escaped from Iran in 1983, and sought refuge in Canada as a political refugee [ [http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/02winter/emergency.asp U of T Magazine - University of Toronto ] ] . Her area of research include women studies, feminist theories, immigrant women, impact of war on women, situation of Kurdish women in diaspora [ [http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~mojabweb/current%20research/diaspora.htm KWRR - Current Research - War, Diaspora and Learning ] ] and role of women in reconstruction [ [http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~mojabweb/current%20research/reconstruction.htm KWRR - Current Research - War, Diaspora and Learning ] ] . She has authored several books on women issues. She is now a Professor in the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology and director of "Women and Gender Studies Institute" at the University of Toronto. Though never formally married, she has been in a relationship with Amir Hassanpour, another Kurdish academic [ [http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B157%5D=x-157-528276 WLUML: News and Views ] ] for over twenty-years. She is a winner of the first international writing contest on "Women's Voices in War Zones" organized by The Women's World Organization for Rights, Literature and Development, a global network of feminist writers.

Books

*Women of Iran: A subject bibliography, pp.106, Iranian Women's Studies Foundation, 2000. ISBN 0-9701413-0-0
*Women of a Non-State Nation, The Kurds (Kurdish Studies Series, No. 3), pp. 268, Mazda Publishers, 2001. ISBN 1-56859-093-8
*Violence in the Name of Honour, with Nahla Abdo, pp. 261, Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2004. ISBN 975-6857-98-6

Notes

External links

* [http://aecp.oise.utoronto.ca/main/faculty/mojab.html Shahrzad Mojab] , University of Toronto.
* [http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~mojabweb/resources.htm Kurdish Women Research Resources] .
* [http://www.kwahk.org/articles.asp?id=30 In Memory of Fadime Sahindal: Thoughts on the Struggle Against “Honour Killing”] , By Shahrzad Mojab and Amir Hassanpour.
* [http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1139827629318&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795 The dangers of Iran's Holocaust denial] , By Amir Hassanpour and Shahrzad Mojab, Toronto Star.
* [http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/News36/text006.htm State-University Power Struggle at Times of Revolution and War in Iran] - Boston College


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