As the authors of the article Beyond Feminism? Jineolojî and the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement, we would like to respond to the letter written by the Jineolojî Committee Europe. Given recent developments in Palestine, particularly the onslaught on Gaza and the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in J..
Nadje Al-Ali and Isabel Käser
Nadje Al-Ali is Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at Brown University. Her main research interests revolve around feminist activism and gendered mobilization, mainly with reference to Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Kurdish political movement. Her publications include What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (2009, University of California Press, co-authored with Nicola Pratt); Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed Books); and Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2000. She is on the advisory board of kohl: a journal of body and gender research and has been involved in several feminist organizations and campaigns transnationally.
Isabel Käser is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and Research Associate at the University of Bern. She gained her PhD at SOAS University of London and previously worked in journalism and diplomacy, most recently leading the project ‘Art in Peace Mediation’ for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. She has lectured at the University of Bern and the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) and is currently the PI of a collaborative project between LSE and the UKH titled ‘The Kurdistan Region of Iraq Post-ISIS: Youth, Art and Gender’, as part of the MEC’s Academic Collaboration with Arab Universities Programme. Her book The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.