Shahrzad Mojab

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Shahrzad Mojab is a prominent Iranian Kurdish[1][2] scholar and researcher. She was born in Shiraz and received her PhD from University of Illinois. She escaped from Iran in 1983, and sought refuge in Canada as a political refugee[3]. Her area of research include women studies, feminist theories, immigrant women, impact of war on women, situation of Kurdish women in diaspora[4] and role of women in reconstruction[5]. She has authored several books on women issues. She is now a Professor in the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology and director of Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Though never formally married, she has been in a relationship with Amir Hassanpour, another Kurdish academic [6] for over twenty-years. She is a winner of the first international writing contest on Women's Voices in War Zones organized by The Women's World Organization for Rights, Literature and Development, a global network of feminist writers[7].

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  • Women of Iran: A subject bibliography, pp.106, Iranian Women's Studies Foundation, 2000. ISBN 0-9701413-0-0
  • Women of a Non-State Nation, The Kurds (Kurdish Studies Series, No. 3), pp. 268, Mazda Publishers, 2001. ISBN 1-56859-093-8
  • Violence in the Name of Honour, with Nahla Abdo, pp. 261, Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2004. ISBN 975-6857-98-6

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/press/grantee-news/2003/mojab-prize.html
  2. ^ Womennet.ca! The Canadian Women's Directory of Resources and Information in Canada
  3. ^ U of T Magazine - University of Toronto
  4. ^ KWRR - Current Research - War, Diaspora and Learning
  5. ^ KWRR - Current Research - War, Diaspora and Learning
  6. ^ WLUML: News and Views
  7. ^ Womennet.ca! The Canadian Women's Directory of Resources and Information in Canada

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