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Professor Ruth Roded, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
deals in the social and cultural history of the Middle East: Her PhD and
subsequent research was on .Ottoman
Syria.
Forover a decade
she has focused on gender. She has published a study of Women in Islamic
Biographical Collections From Ibn Sa'd to Who's Who (1994), and an
introductory reader on Women in Islam and the Middle East (1999), which
will appear in a 2nd edition. In recent years, she has been working
on a rather ambitious project on "Twentieth-Century Gendered Perceptions
of the Biography of the Prophet Muhammed," case studies of which have
appeared as articles. She is currently working on an analytic monograph
tentatively titled “Muslim Women Transformed: Disseminating Islamic Gender
Messages through Modern Perceptions of the Prophet Muhammad’s Life-Story.”
A Hebrew-language collection of original studies by Israeli
researchers, " Women and Gender in the 20th Century Middle East,"
edited with Dr. Ngoa Efrati, “
will appear shortly. Ruth Roded has been a member of a number of national
Middle Eastern studies associations and the international advisory board of
Hawwa, the first scholarly journal devoted to Middle Eastern Gender Studies.
She was elected to the World Council of the World Congress for Middle Eastern
Studies (WOCMES) whose second congress was hosted by the Royal Institute
for Inter-Faith Studies in Amman, Jordan, June, 2006. Ruth Roded also heads
a research team "Gender Space and Forms of Domination in the
Middle East and North Africa," at the Truman Institute for the
Advancement of Peace Research, where she
is a Fellow.
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