...Sondra Hale Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 BOOK REVIEW  131 BRIEF COMMENTARY  JMEWS Conference at UCLA Sondra Hale...

...Azza Basarudin; Khanum Shaikh Azza Basarudin received her doctorate in women’s studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research centers on gender, sexuality, women’s activism, and cultural memory in communities of Muslims in Southeast Asia, the Middle East...

... visual) with SJacques Maquet and Daniel Biebuyck, both renowned anthropology of art specialists (Africa) who taught for a period at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where Hale received her Ph.D. in An- thropology. Hale’s history of art background comes from studies...

... and gender in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) and Muslim societies internationally. Organized by the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Center for the Study of Women, Women’s Studies Department, and Center for Southeast Asian...

... of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), who was at the time president of AMEWS, expressed an interest in editing JMEWS, soon convincing Sondra Hale, anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to co-edit. They decided the journal would have to be housed at UCLA, with subsidiary...

..., Los Angeles. Diane James, our new managing editor, has extensive editing experience as well as a background in Middle East studies and languages. The journal moved to the UCLA Center for the Study of Women on July 1, 2006, and is funded by the UCLA Office of the Dean, Social...

... contributors  mn  141 Sondra Hale is Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Anthro- pology and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and former co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. She has co-directed UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies; co...

... Naazneen Diwan, University of California, Los Angeles While some communities are living in peace, others are living in war. (Caren Kaplan) Th e UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and the Women’s Studies Department collaborated on the Women in Confl ict Zones...

... Organizer Wins Women’s Peace-   Makers Award. Bulletin of the Sudan Studies Association 27:3/4   (October/November): 9 – 12. 2003 Feminist Education in the Global South: A Visit to Sudan. Newsletter   of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Women’s Studies   Programs...

... of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research centers on gender, sexuality, women’s activism, and cultural memory in communi- ties of Muslims in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Basarudin has held fellowships and visiting scholar positions at Harvard University, Syracuse...

... international students were required to attend a meeting, with the warning that whoever did not show up would find their affiliation with UCLA terminated. We were told to bring our visas and passports, which were confiscated at the door. We were told that we were presumed terrorists, that visas would...

... Sudan trip heralded another voyage, doing double duty as her second honeymoon with husband and lifetime partner Gerry Hale, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) geographer and fellow researcher on the Sudan. Having recently gained independence in 1956 from British occupation, Sudan...

... and end with the 2013 uprising in Sudan in an attempt to challenge the concept of failure and exemplify the unintended consequences of the insurrections. Sondra Hale is Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA...

... lifetime awards and prizes, including the International Balzan Foundation prize which enabled her to fi nance six Balzan postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA. Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton. She specializes in the modern...

...- rogated. That being said, one’s “academic career” may never actually end. I have officially mentored over 120 graduate students while at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) alone. They not only keep me vital, but will carry on some of the ideas and methods we developed together...

... feminism/s. She is also co-editor of the Brill series on Women and Gender in the Middle East and Islamic World. SONDRA HALE is Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies and Chair of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She works in both...

... Balzan postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA. Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. NIKKI R. KEDDIE  1...

... of Khartoum to her even- tual professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Hale pursued a non-traditional trajectory as an adjunct into higher education employment compared to the majority of academics of her generation. Some of the obstacles she faced are familiar to those who...

... (% of households with a female head).   httpdata.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.HOU.FEMA.ZS (accessed on   August 28, 2013). Zhai, Jingxi 2012  Sondra Hale, Renowned Professor and Activist, Retires after Decades of  Work with UCLA. Daily Bruin. January 10...

... 1994  A Question of Subjects: The “Female Circumcision” Controversy and the   Politics of Knowledge. Ufahamu (UCLA) 22(3): 26 – 35. 1996 Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State. New York:   Westview Press. 2005  Colonial Discourse...