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AMEWS Board of Directors

Sherifa Zuhur, President
Visiting Scholar, UCBerkeley
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Address for spring of 2001
1309 Oxford St.
Berkeley CA 94907
Szhur@earthlink.net
(510) 845-2803
Zuhur is an historian of the contemporary Middle East who writes on Arab women, cultural studies and the arts of the Middle East, and contemporary political events.

Sondra Hale, Past-president
Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA
sonhale@ucla.edu
Hale is an anthropologist and Sudan specialist who has written on women and Sudanese politics, and women's revolutionary movements in Eritrea and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Miriam Cooke, President-Elect 2001-2003
Professor of Arabic, Duke University
Mcw@duke.edu
Cooke has co-edited a key anthology of Arab feminist writings, and is the author of works on intellectual production women and war, Islamization, and a new novel.

Janet Afary, President-Elect 2003-2005
Dept. of History, Purdue University
Afary@purdue.edu
Afary is an historian and specialist on Iran. She has written on the Constitutional Revolution and women, and women in contemporary Iran.

Amaney A. Jamal, Secretary/Treasurer
Dept. of Political Science, University of Michigan
edu amaneyps@umich.edu
Jamal is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at University of Michigan. She has written on Arab-American women.

Dawn Chatty, Member at large
Center for Refugee Studies
Oxford University
CHATTYMYLNE@cs.com
Chatty is an anthropologist and author of many works on Nomadic groups, and who is currently a faculty member at Queen Elizabeth House at Oxford University.

Susan Schaefer Davis, Member at large
Independent Scholar
sdavis@uslink.net
Davis has taught at Rutgers University, Trenton State College and Haverford College. More recently she has worked as consultant on socio-economic development in the Maghreb, on projects involving women in Morocco.

Frances Hasso, Incoming Member at large
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology
Oberlin College
Frances.Hasso@oberlin.edu
Hasso has written on Palestinian women and their political import.

Jennifer Olmsted, Editor
Middle East Studies Review
Dept. of Economics, Occidental College
jolmsted@oxy.edu
Olmsted is an economist, whose work has focused on Palestinian women and economic issues. She is currently teaching at Occidental College.

Past-Presidents: Sondra Hale (97-99) Eleanor Doumato (95-97) Farzaneh Milani (93-95), Susan Schaefer Davis (91-93), Afaf Mahfouz (89-91), Julie Peteet (87-89), Suad Joseph (85-87).