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Judith Tucker

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Dr. Judith Tucker is Professor of history and director of the Master of Arts in Arab Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Her research interests focus on the Arab world in the Ottoman period, women and gender in Middle East history, and Islamic law, women, and gender. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and former Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Tucker is the author of many publications on the history of women and gender in the Arab world, including Women in 19th Century Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 1985), In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (California University Press, 1998), and Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008). She is also the co-author of Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History (Indiana University Press, 1999). In addition, Tucker is the editor of Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers Indiana University Press, 1993) and co-editor of A Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East (Westview Press, 1999).