Marwa
Shalaby is the Fellow for the Middle East and Director of the Women's Rights in
the Middle East Program at James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at
Rice University, USA. Her research focuses on comparative politics and research
methodology, with a concentration on Middle Eastern politics, gender politics,
and democratization.
Valentine
M. Moghadam is Director of the International Affairs Program, and Professor of
Sociology, at Northeastern University, USA. Born in Tehran, Iran, Dr. Moghadam
studied in Canada and the U.S. She is
the author of Modernizing Women: Gender
and Social Change in the Middle East (1993, 2003, 2013), Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist
Networks (2005, winner of the American Political Science Association's
Victoria Schuck Award), and Globalization
and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement
(2009, 2013).