Recommended Reading

Image of A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey
Author: Leila Ahmed
Publisher: Penguin Books (2000)
Binding: Paperback, 307 pages
Image of Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
Author: Leila Ahmed Ph.D
Publisher: Yale University Press (1993)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages

Music Played

Image of Awakening
Artist: Joseph Curiale, Joseph Curiale, The Royal Philhramonic Orchestra/Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Dod Severinsen (trpt.), Ralph Morrison (violin), Mike Miller (guitar)
Label: Orchard Road
Image of The Second Baghdad
Artist: Rahim Alhaj
Label: Magnetic Fields
Image of Sufi Music of Turkey
Artist: Kudsi Erguner
Label: Times Square Records
Image of Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Artist: Simon Shaheen
Label: Axiom
Image of Lily of the Nile
Artist: Hamza El Din
Label: Water Lily Acoustics

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    Leila Ahmed

    Ahmed is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and author of several books, including Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate and A Border Passage.

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