Nadia Guessous

Nadia Guessous is Assistant Professor of anthropology and gender studies at the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. She is an anthropologist whose teaching and research focus on questions of religion, secularism, feminism and modern subjectivity. She is the author of a study on gender and political violence during the repressive years of lead in Morocco published in Morocco and in France; and is working on a book entitled Genealogies of Feminism: Leftist Feminist Subjectivity in the Wake of the Islamic Revival in Contemporary Morocco.