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Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil (Oneworld,
2005); and editor, with Armando Salvatore, of Religion, Social Practices
and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim
Majority Societies (Palgrave, 2005), and with Sandra Sufian, Reapproaching
Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine (Rowman
Littlefield, 2007).
Bahíyyih Maroon is an applied social scientist whose work considers the
relationship between input structures, culture and outcomes specific to
economic development. Dr. Maroon has researched and designed devel-
opment initiatives in North Africa and the Middle East as well as the
United States. Her publications have appeared in several edited volumes,
including The Cell Phone Reader (Peter Lang, 2006). She is currently the
director of the Eripio Institute.
Annelies Moors is an anthropologist, ISIM-chair at the University of
Amsterdam and director of the research program Muslim Cultural
Politics. She is the author of Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian
Experiences 1920– 1990 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and has pub-
lished on such varied topics as debating family law, visualizing the nation-
gender nexus, gold and globalization, Muslims and fashion, and migrant
domestic labor in the Middle East.
Ferhunde Özbay is a professor of sociology at Boğaziçi University. She
publishes on women, family, domestic work and migration. She is the
editor of Women, Family and Social Change in Turkey (UNESCO, 1990)
and author of “Gendered Space: A New Look at Turkish Modernization,”
in Gender & History, edited by L. Davidoff et al. (Blackwell, 2000).
Rima Sabban is assistant professor of sociology in the United Arab
Emirates. She is currently working as a consultant with the Mohammed
Bin Rashid Foundation for Human Development in the Arab World.
She is the author of Motherhood: Experiences of an Arab Woman and co-
author of “General Socio-Political Trends and Perceptions of Youth in the
GCC Countries.”