Professor Karima Laachir
Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor Karima Laachir is the Director of the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, and a member of the ANU Gender Institute and the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership.
Professor Laachir works on the cultures and politics of the Middle East with a particular focus on the Arabic-speaking world.
She works on issues related to social and political movements, gender and women’s rights and Muslim diaspora in the West and Australia.
Fields of expertise
AfricaArab StudiesBahrainImmigration and multiculturalismIraqJordanKuwaitLebanonLiteratureMiddle East and Central Asia
Articles
Nawal El Saadawi was a fearless voice for Arab women
From the early 1970s onwards, Dr Nawal El Saadawi electrified feminist scholarship in Egypt and the Arabic-speaking region. Her writings on gender-based violence,…