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Shahrzad Mojab , Professor, is an academic-activist, teaching at the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Professor Mojab is currently Interim Principal of New College, former Director of the Women and Gender Institute at the University of Toronto and the past-President of the Canadian Association for the Studies of Adult Education.

Her publications include, among others, book chapters and articles which has appeared in reputable international journals. She is the editor of Women of A Non-State Nation: The Kurds and the co-editor of Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism and Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges. She has been the guest editor for special issues of the International Journal of Lifelong Education on the topic of women, war and learning; the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies on women political prisoners (forthcoming) and the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Journal on gender and empire.

Professor Mojab is currently conducting Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded research on war, diaspora, and learning; women political prisoners in the Middle East; war and transnational women’s organizations, and civic education curriculum as experienced by immigrant youth from war zones. She has created two research websites as an archival space for relevant resource for the research and as a tool for the dissemination of knowledge. The websites are: Women, War, Diaspora and Learning (www.utoronto.ca/wwdl) and Memories, Memoirs, and the Arts: Women Political Prisoners of Iran (www.utoronto.ca/prisonmemoirs).

In recent years, Shahrzad has attempted to diversify the dissemination of her research results. With the help of Shahrzad Arshadi, a well-known feminist filmmaker and photographer committed to social justice and human rights, she has produced two documentaries. Samjana: Memoirs and Resistance is based on Professor Mojab’s research on women in the post-war Nepal, their role in the peace process, as well as the role of women’s NGOS in building sustainable peace. The second documentry to be released in 2009 is Dancing of Change: Kurdish Women. This documentary is based on Shahrzad’s decades of research and work with Kurdish women. It captures their yearning for secularism and socialism; their dreams and desires for a just world.

Sharzad Mojab website

Shahrzad Mojab was our guest on November 1, 2009.

  You can listen to Radio Payam’s interview with Dr. Mojab here.
  And all other our guests Interviews from HERE.

 

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