- Shahrzad Mojab
Shahrzad Mojab is a prominent Iranian Kurdish [http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/press/grantee-news/2003/mojab-prize.html ] [http://www.womennet.ca/news.php?show&678 Womennet.ca! The Canadian Women's Directory of Resources and Information in Canada ] ] 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 inCanada as a political refugee [ [http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/02winter/emergency.asp U of T Magazine - University of Toronto ] ] . Her area of research include women studies, feminist theories, immigrant women, impact of war on women, situation of Kurdish women in diaspora [ [http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~mojabweb/current%20research/diaspora.htm KWRR - Current Research - War, Diaspora and Learning ] ] and role of women in reconstruction [ [http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~mojabweb/current%20research/reconstruction.htm KWRR - Current Research - War, Diaspora and Learning ] ] . 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 theUniversity of Toronto . Though never formally married, she has been in a relationship withAmir Hassanpour , another Kurdish academic [ [http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B157%5D=x-157-528276 WLUML: News and Views ] ] 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.Books
*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 975-6857-98-6Notes
External links
* [http://aecp.oise.utoronto.ca/main/faculty/mojab.html Shahrzad Mojab] , University of Toronto.
* [http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~mojabweb/resources.htm Kurdish Women Research Resources] .
* [http://www.kwahk.org/articles.asp?id=30 In Memory of Fadime Sahindal: Thoughts on the Struggle Against “Honour Killing”] , By Shahrzad Mojab and Amir Hassanpour.
* [http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1139827629318&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795 The dangers of Iran's Holocaust denial] , By Amir Hassanpour and Shahrzad Mojab,Toronto Star .
* [http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/News36/text006.htm State-University Power Struggle at Times of Revolution and War in Iran] - Boston College
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