ZIBA MIR
HOSSEINI
is an Iranian Anthropologist who lives in London. She works
as a freelance researcher and consultant on gender and development
issues and has done extensive fieldwork in rural and urban Iran
as well as urban Morocco. Since the 1979 Revolution in Iran ,
she has done research in Teheran family courts and has followed
developments in family law debates about gender issues in the
Islamic Republic. Her first book, Marriage on Trail;A Study of
Family Law in Iran and Morrocco (l.B.Tauris,1993) inspired Kim
Longinotto to collaborate with her on this film. She is also the
author of Feminism and the Islamic Republic: Dialogues with the
Ulema (Princeton,1999) and Islam and Gender, the Religious Debate
in Contemporary Islam.Dr Hosseini is currently teaching in the
Hauser Global School Law Program at New York University.
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