Introduction: Early Twentieth-Century Middle Eastern Feminisms, Nationalisms, and Transnationalisms

Mary Ann Fay is Associate Professor of History at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Her research interests include women in eighteenth-century Egypt. She has published numerous articles on the subject in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Women’s History and the International Journal of Middle East Studies, as well as in several collections. Her most recent article, “International Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Egypt: A Reappraisal of Categories and Legacies,” is included in the collection, Family Ties and Ideational Changes in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia, 1904–1923 (forthcoming in 2008), edited by Kathryn Yount and Hoda Rashad.