Contributors
Caroline Seymour-Jorn is an assistant professor in the Arabic program at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. She holds a BA in Arabic and Greek from the Ohio State University and an MA and PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago, with a specialization in the anthropology of literature. Her articles on Arab women’s writing have appeared in journals and edited volumes. Her current research interests include Egyptian women’s literature as social discourse and Arabic language retention and processes of Americanization among Arab Americans.
Diane Singerman is an associate professor in the Department of Government, School of Public Affairs at American University. She has published Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo (Princeton University Press, 1995) and edited Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East with Paul Amar (American University in Cairo Press, 2006) and Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household with Homa Hoodfar (Indiana University Press, 1996). Her recent research interests also include Personal Status Law Reform, the high cost of marriage, and other predicaments of the young in Egypt and the larger Middle East.
Soraya Tremayne is the Coordinating Director of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, University of Oxford and a research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University [End Page 144] of Oxford. She was formerly Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women at the Department for International Development Studies, Queen Elizabeth House and University of Oxford. Her interest is in the field of medical anthropology with emphasis on the anthropology of reproduction in Iran.
Zeina Zaatari earned her PhD in cultural anthropology with a designated emphasis in feminist theory from the University of California at Davis. She conducted fieldwork with women’s groups and women activists in South Lebanon detailing their life histories and the ways they negotiated their work in civil society of a postwar country. Dr. Zaatari is currently a program officer for the Middle East and North Africa at the Global Fund for Women and is a research fellow at the anthropology department at UC Davis. She is also a founding member of the Radical Arab Women’s Activist Network and the National Council of Arab Americans (NCA).
