Collection Development
Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection

Pre-Islamic Middle East

• The Status of Women in Egyptian Society [Ancient]
• The Status of Women in Ancient Egyptian Society / Peter A. Piccione
• Bibliography on Women in Byzantium, 1996 (by Thalia Gouma-Peterson ... et al.)
• A syllabus for a course on women and gender in the ancient Near East

Islamic Era, General & Contemporary

• The Status of Woman in Islamic Law (Dr. Jur., Ph.D. Christina Jones)
• Women in Islam
• Islam and Women's Rights
• Important women in Islam
• Women Living Under Muslim Laws
• A Visit to the Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (Translated from a Genoese Letter), c. 1550 (Modern History Sourcebook)
• Seljuk and Ottoman Women: Daily Life & Imperial Women
• Seljuk and Ottoman Women: Women and the Arts; Clothing Styles
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Dining With The Sultana, 1718 (Modern History Sourcebook)
• Jarimat al-sharaf ... [Crime of Honor] (al-Hayat, 13 OCt. 2001, p. 17--in Arabic--PDF)
• Jarimat al-sharaf ... ahad aslihat al-damar al-shamil [Crime of Honor: a weappon of mass destruction] (al-Hayat, 13 OCt. 2001, p. 18--in Arabic--PDF)
• Jarimat al-sharaf fi Pakistan [Crime of Honor in Pakistan] (al-Hayat, 13 OCt. 2001, p. 19--in Arabic--PDF)
• Women, Islam & Equality (National Council of Resistance of Iran)
• Women's Caravan and CyberHarem
• Women in Islam versus Women in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition: The Myth & the Reality (by Dr. Sherif Abdel Azeem)
• Women in Islam- Quran and Hadith Compared (Beth Dulin, Class of 2001)
• Arab Woman : Potentials and Prospects (The three articles that follow are reprints of original pieces published by Arab Perspectives in its October, 1980 issue, Vol. 1, No. 7)
• Education of Women in the Arab World / Ayad al-Qazzat
• Women's Music and the Life Cycle," / Jane Bowers
• The Role of Women in Arabic Literature
• Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Research: Promise or Pitfall? / Ruth Roded
• Women in Islam

Afghanistan

• Afghanistan's Girls Fight to Read and Write (NYT, March 9, 2000)
• Afghan women under the tyranny of the brutal fundamentalists
• The Williams Afghan Media Project (WAMP)

Algeria

• Definitions of Algerian Women: Citizenship, participation and exclusion (The third Nordic conference on Middle Eastern Studies: Ethnic encounter and culture change Joensuu, Finland, 19-22 June 1995)
• The Image of Women in Algerian and Tunisian Cinema / LEYLA BOUZID
• Women in Colonial Algeria Bibliography and Contacts
• Women's Organisations Algeria

Bahrain

• In Bahrain, Women Run, Women Vote, Women Lose (The New York Times, May 22, 2002)

Egypt

• Women's Organisations
• Women targeted by association / (Amnesty International, 1 March 1997)
• Women in Egypt Gain Broader Divorce Rights (Washington Post, Friday , April 14, 2000 ; A16)
• EGYPTIAN WOMEN IN MODERN AGE
• Egyptian feminist faces lawsuit for "scorning" Islam (Friday, April 13, 2001)
• Sinai Bedouin Women

Iran

• ZAN: A Directory / Anthology about Iranian Women
• Foundation for Iranian Studies, The Women's Center
• The Myth of Oppression: Women in Iran (Monique Ann Girgis), B.A Diss. in Political Science, Bates College, 1995
• Persecution of women (Iran-e-Azad)
• Women, Islam & Equality (National Council of Resistance of Iran)
• Here and There, a Burst of Color Is Now Islamic IRANIAN DRESS CODE (The New York Times, July 23, 2000)
• In Iran, More Women Leaving Nest for University (The New York Times, July 23, 2000)
• Runaway Youths a Thorn in Iran's Chaste Side (NYT,November 5, 2000)
• Love Finds a Way in Iran: 'Temporary Marriage'
• Islam and Women's Equality (by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi)

Israel

• Bat Shalom

Jordan

• Arab Honor's Price: A Woman's Blood (NYT, June 20, 1999)
• The Fervor: Islam's Teachings and Chastity (NYT, June 20, 1999)

Kurdistan

• Kurdish Women (al-Mashriq)
• Kurdish Women Action Against Honour Killing (KWAHK)
• The Kurdish Women Site
• International Kurdish Women's Studies Network

Morocco

• Moroccan Woman
• Moroccans and Women: Two Rallies
• Moroccan Women's Roundtable (HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and others, Marrakech, Morocco, March 30, 1999)

Palestine

• Women's Affairs Technical Committee, WATC (Palestinian non-government organization)
• Arab Women, Liberal Feminism and the Israeli State / Lisa Hajjar
• Bibliography on Palestinian Women

Saudi Arabia

• The Veiled Life of Saudi Women (Friday , December 8, 2000 ; Page A59)
• Saudi Mall-Crawlers Shop Till Their Veils Drop (NYT, December 5, 2000)

Tunisia

• Status of Women
• The Image of Women in Algerian and Tunisian Cinema / LEYLA BOUZID
• Femmes Tunisiennes entre modernisme et traditions
• Women and Civil Rights
• Tunisia Women's Organisations

Turkey

• Women in Contemporary Turkey
• Turkish Women in Statistics
• Turkish Women in Politics (by Burcak Keskin)
• In Turkey, a Matter of Conviction Women Who Spoke Against Police Abuse Face Prosecution (Washington Post, Monday, May 21, 2001; Page A01)
• In Turkey, 'Honor Killing' Follows Families to Cities Women Are Victims Of Village Tradition (Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, August 8, 2001; Page A01)
• Lesbian Love in A Turkish Bath, 1560 / Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522 - 1592) (Letters Magazine)
• Virginity Control of Women in Turkey
• Turkish Women Who See Death as a Way Out (NYT, November 3, 2000)
• The Problems of Turkey Rest on Women's Heads (Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday , October 29, 2000 ; Page A32)

U.S.A.

• The Association for Middle East Women's Studies

Misc.

• Behind the Veil, a Muslim Feminist
• LakiAnti: the largest Arabic site specialized for women ... Daily Update
• al-Raidah Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World; Lebanese American University
• The Role of Women in Arabic Literature

Middle East & Islamic Studies, http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/

Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer.