Willamette Religious Studies Department

Re-Telling Tales: Women and Gender in the Middle East
A lecture by Professor Judith Tucker
Monday, February 3 at 7:30 pm

The Inaugural Tarbell Lecture in Islamic Studies
John C. Paulus Lecture Hall, Law 201
Willamette University
900 State Street, Salem, OR 97301


Judith E. Tucker is Professor of History at Georgetown University, former Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (2004-2009), and former president of the Middle East Studies Association (2017-2019). She is the author of Women in 19th Century Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 1985), In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (University of California Press, 1998), Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and co-author of Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History (Indiana University Press, 1999).

This event is free and open to the public.

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