Women, Sharia Law and Reform in the Middle East

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Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, gives a talk titled “Women, Sharia Law and Reform in the Middle East” at the University of Vermont.

Coleman directs the Civil Society, Markets and Democracy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her areas of expertise include the political economy of the Middle East, democratization, civil society, economic development, educational reform and gender issues. She is the author and coauthor of numerous books, including Pathways to Freedom: Political and Economic Lessons from Democratic Transitions (Council on Foreign Relations, 2013), The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Security (Routledge Press, 2012), Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East (Random House, 2010), Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President (Brookings Institution Press, 2008), and Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security (Hoover Institution Press, 2006).

In addition to the Marsh Professor-at-Large program, the talk is sponsored by President Tom Sullivan; the Department of Economics; the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies; the Department of Political Science; and the Vermont Council on World Affairs.