We congratulate Dr. Choman Hardi, Center for Gender ad Development Studies founder and director, who published her chapter "The Women’s Movement in Kurdistan-Iraq" in The Cambridge History of the Kurds (April, 2021). Dr. Choman explains that the history of women’s activism in Kurdistan-Iraq is closely intertwined with the...
We congratulate Dr. Shakir (Muhammad Usman), our Jan Warner Visiting Scholar, on his most recent publication. “Epistemological Violence Against the Yazidi Community: A Historical Perspective,” with second author Abdul Ghaffar Bhatti and third author Muhammad Imran, appears in PalArch Journal of...
A book review by Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, has been posted on H-Disability, in H-Net Reviews. Dr. Lynn reviewed Education and Disability in the Global South: New Perspectives from Africa and Asia, edited by Nidhi Singal,...
Dr. Shakir (Muhammed Usman), CGDS’s Jan Warner Visiting Scholar (spring 2021) and instructor in the Department of Social Sciences at AUIS, has two new publications. Dr. Shakir is the first author, with co-author Gilmário Kassandro Xavier Pinheiro, of “Religãlo Islã e...
CGDS is pleased to announce that our spring 2021 Jan Warner Visiting Scholar Dr. Shakir (Muhammed Usman) has published “The Idea of Female Muezzins and Imams in Islam: A Challenge to the Pakistani Patriarchal Forces” in the Pakistan Journal of Society, Education, and Language Vol 7 (2) July,...
Dr. Shakir’s “Yazidis: A Tale of a Lost, Found, and Misunderstood Legacy in the Light of Mimetic Theory” is now in print, in Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Volume 28, pages 251-280. Contagion is a Michigan State University Press publication. Information about the article can be...
