I wrote this book because it was a book I wanted to read. I came of age during a time when the images and discussions of Muslim women revolved around a trope of victimhood, and the urgency of international intervention in the region was a regular news headline...
Shirin Saeidi
Dr. Shirin Saeidi is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Arkansas, and the director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies. She was awarded a PhD from Cambridge University in 2012. Her book Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.