Biography:Ibtissam Bouachrine

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Short description: Researcher in Islamic gender studies
Ibtissam Bouachrine
Academic background
EducationTulane University, PhD
West Virginia University, MA, BA
Academic work
Disciplinewomen and gender issues in Islam
InstitutionsSmith College

Ibtissam Bouachrine is a researcher in Islamic gender studies, professor and chair at Smith College in the department of Spanish and Portuguese.[1][2][3][4] According to Harvard Law Today, Bouachrine is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media.[5] According to Harvard Law Today, Bouachrine has ongoing interdisciplinary research interests in the topics namely technology, ethics, law, and women’s rights in Muslim-majority societies.[5] Bouachrine is on editorial board of The Journal of the Middle East and Africa.[6]

Personal life

Ibtissam Bouachrine was born in Casablanca, Morocco.[2][7] Bouachrine has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from West Virginia University. She gained a Ph.D. in medieval Iberian literatures and cultures from Tulane University in New Orleans.[1][7]

Bouachrine then joined the Smith College faculty. She served as former director of the Middle East studies program the co-director of the Women’s Education Concentration. In 2021, she became a full professor at Smith.[1]

Bibliography

Books

  • Bouachrine, Ibtissam. Anthem of Misogyny: The War on Women in North Africa and the Middle East. United Kingdom, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022.
  • Bouachrine, Ibtissam. Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique. United States, Lexington Books, 2014.

Journal articles

  • Ibtissam Bouachrine (2012) In the absence of men: representing Andalusi women's sexuality in the context of military conflict, Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 4:1, 77-81, doi:10.1080/17546559.2012.677182
  • Bouachrine, Ibtissam. Rjal et leurs reines: le Printemps arabe et le discours sur la masculinité et la féminité. N.p., n.p, 2011.
  • Women and gardens in medieval and early modern Mediterranean literatures and cultures, Tulane University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2005. 3210842.
  • Bouachrine, Ibtissam. Goldstein, L Judith. Muslim and Jewish Women :Historical and cultural contexts. The Routledge Handbook of Muslim–Jewish Relations. Ed. Josef Meri. (2016) p.p. 295. ISBN:978-1-315-67578-7
  • Ali, Kecia. Transgressing all bounds? Gendering authority and Engendering orthodoxy. Freedom of Expression in Islam: Challenging Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws. Ed.Masud, Muhammad Khalid. United Kingdom, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
  • Hachad, Naïma. Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women's Auto/biographical and Testimonial Acts. United Kingdom, Liverpool University Press, 2019. p.p. 143
  • Women and Social Change in North Africa: What Counts as Revolutionary?. Singapore, Cambridge University Press, 2018. pp. 122

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