Zakia Salime

Zakia Salime is Assistant Professor in Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, where she teaches courses in comparative feminism(s), gender, globalization, social movements, international inequalities, and postcoloniality. Her research interests include, race, empire, the political economy of the "war on terror," development policies, Islamic societies and movements, and Middle East and US relations. Salime’s book Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco (Minnesota, 2011) illustrates this interplay of global regimes of rights and local alternatives, by looking at the interactions among the feminist and the Islamist women’s movements.