Links and Resources
The ABC Radio International's "The Spirit of Things" provides a transcript of a radio program featuring British Muslims Tariq Modood and Salman Sayyid and Australian Samina Yasmeen, who consider the limits of integration; and Nadia Jamal and Taghred Chandab discuss their report on growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia.
NPR's Talk of the Nation (October 22, 2003) looks at how Islamic women reform Islam from the inside out with guests Nayereh Tohidi, Shaheen Sardar Ali, and Leila Ahmed.
This Muslim-American organization's site provides commentary, position papers, reading lists, and much more on women's issues as they relate to Islam.
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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.
