BOOKS
2010
Women, War, Violence and Learning (ed.). London: Routeldge.
2004
Mojab, S. and N. Abdo (eds.) Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press.
2001
Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds (ed.). Costa Mesa, California: MAZDA Publishers, 263 pages. Translated into Turkish by Fahriye Adsay, Sema Kiliç, and Ekin Uşaklı, Develtsiz Ulusun Kadinlari: Kürt Kadini Üzerine Araştirmalar. Istanbul: Avesta, 2005, 356 pages.
Bannerji, H. and S. Mojab, and J. Whitehead (eds.) Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 244 pages.
2000
Mojab, S. and A. Hojabri (eds.) Women of Iran: A Subject bibliography. Cambridge, MA: Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation, 106 pages.
Mojab, S. and A. Hojabri (eds.) Two Decades of Iranian Women’s Studies in Exiles: A Subject Bibliography [in Farsi]. Cambridge, MA: Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation, 154 pages.
MONOGRAPHS
2010
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Journal, guest editor, special issue on Gender and Empire, 30 (2).
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Journal, guest editor, special issue on Gender and Empire.
Carpenter, Sara, Marilyn Laiken and Shahrzad Mojab (eds.) Spaces/Places: Exploring the Boundaries of Adult Education, Proceedings of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), Carleton University, Ottawa.
2008
International Journal of Lifelong Education, guest editor with Stephan Dobson, special issue on Women , War and Learning.
2007
Mojab, S. And Nadeen El-Kassem, “Cultural Relativism: Theoretical, Political and Ideological Debates,” The Canadian Council of Muslim Women, Ottawa, 30 pages.
2005
Mojab, S. and H. Nosheen Proceedings of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, May, 312 pages.
2003
Bannerji, H. and S. Mojab Resources for Feminist Research, 30 (3/4), guest editor, special issue on War and Militarization.
2002
Mojab, S. and W. McQueen (eds.) Adult Education and the Contested Terrain of Public Policy. Toronto: The Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, 436 Pages.
Mojab, S. and N. Binder Wall and S. McDonald, Collaborative Learning for Change. OISE/University of Toronto, Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology, April, 28 pages.
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Samjana: Memoirs and Resistance
Based on my research on women in the post-war Nepal, their role in the peace process, as well as the role of women’s NGOs in building sustainable peace, I have produced a documentary film called, Samjana: Memoirs and Resistance. This documentary is filmed and directed by Shahrzad Arshadi, a Canadian film maker and photographer based in Montreal. The first screening of this documentary for audience review was at OISE/UT on June 23, 2007. More than hundred people attend the session and the film was well received. In May 29, 2008 it was shown at the Centre Culturel Simón Bolívar in Montreal and it is sponsored by the Consulat Général de la République Bolivarienne du Venezuela á Montréal. Migrant Women's Coordinating Body screened this documentary in their first organizing meeting in Toronto on January 24, 2010.
Dancing for Change: The Rebel Women of Kurdistan
This documentary is based on my decades of research and work with Kurdish women. It captures their yearning for secularism and socialism; their dreams and desires for a just world. In a society where state, community, and family violence against women is pervasive, these courageous women cross all boundaries and are engaged in political and military training, life-writing and life-reading activities, broadcasting, and surely dancing! This documentary is filmed and directed by Shahrzad Arshadi, a Canadian film maker and photographer based in Montreal. The documentary will be released in 2011.
Refereed Articles
2010
“Gender and Empire,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Journal, 30 (2): 220-223.
Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism: A Decade Later, with Himani Bannerji, and Judith Whitehead, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Journal, 30 (2): 262-271.
2008
Women, war and learning, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 10(3): 402 411.
Women, war, and learning, editorial with Stephan Dobson, International Journal of lifelong Education, 27 (2): 119-127.
2007
Dispersed Nationalism: War, Diaspora and Kurdish Womens Organizing, with Rachel Gorman in Transnational theory, national politics and gender in the contemporary Middle East/North Africa, Journal of Middle East Womens Studies, 3 (1), Winter: 58-85.
2006
Women in the war zone of the Middle East: Fragmented solidarities and scattered resistances, Feminist Approaches in Culture and Politics, Issue 1, October [in Turkish].
In the quagmires of ethnicity: A Marxist critique of liberal exit strategies, Journal of Ethnicities, 6 (3): 341-361.
2005
Middle East and Adult Education, in Leona M. English (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Adult Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 400-404.
Kurdish women, in Suad Joseph (ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Volume II, Family, Law and Politics. Brill: Leiden-Boston, pp. 358-366.
Honor: Iran and Afghanistan,in Suad Joseph (ed), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Volume II, Family, Law and Politics. Brill: Leiden-Boston, pp. 215-216.
2004
Layla Zana,in Philip Mattar (ed) Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, Vol. 4, 2nd Edition. Detroit, Michigan: Mcmillan Reference USA.
Introduction, in Bannerji and Mojab (eds.) War and Militarization, special issue of Resources for Feminist Research, 30 (3/4):7-12.
State-university power struggle at times of revolution and war in Iran, International Higher Education, No. 36, Summer: 11-13.
Mojab, S. and A. Hassanpour Kurdish diaspora, in Ian Skoggard (ed.) Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Diasporas. Human Relations Area Files, Inc: New Haven, Connecticut: 214-224.
2003
Butterwick, S., Tara Fenwick, and Shahrzad Mojab Canadian adult education research in the 1990s: Tracing liberatory trends, The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. 17 (2): 1-19.
Mojab, S. and R. Gorman Women and consciousness in the learning organization: Emancipation or exploitation? Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 53 (4): 228-241.
Grace, A., P. Gouthro, and S. Mojab Thinking the practice: Academic adult educators reflections on mediating a summer institute as a multicultural learning journey for graduate students, Studies in Continuing Education, Vol. 25, No. 1, May: 51-73.
Kurdish women in the zone of genocide and gendercide, Al-Raida Magazine, Institute for Womens Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University, Vol. XXI, No. 103: 20-25.
2002
Mojab, S. and A. Hassanpour The politics and culture of honour killing: The murder of Fadime ahindal, Pakistan Journal of Womens Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, June, (9) 1:57-77.
Honor Killing: Culture, politics and theory. Middle East Womens Studies Review, Spring/Summer 17 (1&2): 1-7.
Mojab, S. and A. Hassanpour Thoughts on the struggle against honour killing, The International Journal of Kurdish Studies, (16) 1 & 2: 83-97. Translated in Farsi by Farideh Fatah Ghazi in Rawangeh, (4) 18.
Fundamentalist and capitalist wars on women, Fireweed, Special issue on Women, Race, War and Resistance, No. 7, Part 1: 12-19.
2001
Womens studies across nations; Facing the challenges of global feminisms, Pakistan Journal of Womens Studies, 8 (1&2): 27-40.
The politics of cyberfeminism in the Middle East: The Case of Kurdish Women, Journal of Race, Gender, and Class, 8 (4): 42-61.
Theorizing the politics of Islamic Feminism, Feminist Review, Winter, No. 69: 124-146. Reprinted in Lola Press @3 (International Feminist Magazine), 2002.
2000
Adult education in the Middle East: Etatism, patriarchy and civil society, Convergence, 33 (3): 9-24.
The feminist project in cyberspace and civil society, Convergence, 33 (1-2):106-119.
Doing fieldwork on women in theocratic Islamic states, Resources for Feminist Research, Spring/Summer, 28 (1-2): 81-98. Re-printed in Janet Momsen (ed.) (2008) Gender and Development, Volume II, Policy and Practice. New York: Routledge.
Educational voyaging in a globalizing planet: The conference of the rich, the poor, and the oppressed, Atlantis: A Womens Studies Journal. 24 (2): 123-134.
Vengeance and violence: Kurdish women recount the war, Canadian Woman Studies Journal. 19 (4), Winter: 89-94. Also is translated into German, Rache und Gewalt: Kurdische Frauen erinnern den Krieg, Kurdische Studien 1 (2001) 1: 53-63.
1999
De-skilling immigrant women, Canadian Woman Studies Journal. 19 (3), Fall:123-127.
1998
The state, university, and the construction of civil society in the Middle East, Futures, the special issue on The Future of the University, September 30 (7): 657-667.
Muslim women and Western Feminists: The debates on particulars and universals, Monthly Review, December, 50 (7):19-30. Translated in Swedish available on (http://www.solidaritet.dk/soli99-3/muslimq.html) In German by Eva Kalny in Arbeitskreis Emanzipation und Partnerschaft Informationen, Nr. 2: 12-13, 2003 and Frauensolidarität No. 4: 6-7, 2002. Reprinted in Fraz: Frauenzeitung, October-November 2003, p. 11 and Pravda, (1999), 6 (2 & 3): 35-39.
1997
Crossing boundaries of nationalism, patriarchy, and Eurocentrism: The struggle for a Kurdish Women Studies Network, Canadian Woman Studies,17 (2): 68-72. Translated in Farsi in Rumange: Monthly Bi-lingual Magazine, 2003, No. 12, pp. 14-16.
Speaking of our lives: Minority women in academe, Convergence, 30 (2 & 3):115-125.
1996
Nationalism and feminism: The case of Kurdistan, Institute Simone de Beauvoir Bulletin, (16): 65-76.
1995
Academic Freedom and Diversity in Canadian Universities, Women's Education des femmes, the publication of Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women, 11 (4): 18-22.
Islamic feminism: Alternative or contradiction? Fireweed. Winter, (47):18-25.
1989
University reform in Iran: The development dimension, 1981-89, Muslim Education Quarterly, 7 (1): 34-42.
1987
The Islamic Government's Policy on Women's Access to Higher Education: 1979-85. Women in International Development Publication Series, Working Paper # 156, Michigan State University, U.S.A., December, 18 pages. Translated into Persian by E. Dolkhanian, Siysat-e hokumat-e eslm- prmun-e dastras-ye zann be muzesh-e 'l va asart-e n bar mowqi'yat-e 'ejtem'i-eqtesd-ye zann, Nimeye-Digar: Persian Language Feminist Journal (U.S.A.), Summer (7):16-31.
Women in Politics and War: The Case of Kurdistan. Women in International Development Publication Series, Working Paper # 145, Michigan State University, U.S.A., September, 18 pages. Translated into Persian by E. Dolkhanian, Zan dar 'arseye siysat va jang: tajrobeye Kordestn, Nimeye-Digar: Persian Language Feminist Journal [U.S.A.], No. 9, Spring 1989, pp. 41-62; translated into Norwegian, Kvinner i politikk og Krig, KURDISTAN-NYTT: Spesial nummer om Kvinner, [Oslo, Norway], March 1989, pp. 9-13; translated into Kurdish, Afret le meydanî er û siyaset da (ezmûnî Kurdistan), Rabûn [Stockholm], 1992, (4):73-90.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2009
“Imperialism, ‘Post-war Reconstruction’ and Kurdish Women’s NGOs,” Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt (eds.) Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives. London, UK: Zed Books Publishers: 99-128.
“Turning work and lifelong learning inside out: A Marxist-Feminist attempt,” in Linda Cooper and Shirley Walters (eds.)Learning/Work: Turning Work and Lifelong Learning Inside Out. Cape Town, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council: 4-15.
2008
“War, Diaspora, Learning and Women’s Standpoint,”with Rachel Gorman in Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed and Nazilla Khanlou (eds.) Not Born A Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities: Rethinking Practices. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 135-149.
“Women, violence and informal learning,” with Susan McDonald in Kathryn Church, Nina Bascia, and Eric Shragge (eds.) Learning Through Community: Exploring Participatory Practices. Springer Publishers, 37-53.
2007
“Years of solitude, years of defiance: Women political prisoners in Iran,” in Agah, A., Sousan Mehr and Shadi Parsi, We Lived to Tell: Political Prison Memoirs of Iranian Women. Toronto: McGilligan Books, 7-18.
“Cultural relativism: Theoretical, political and ideological debates,” with Nadeen El-Kassem in Canadian Council of Muslim Women, Canadian Muslim Women at the Crossroads: From integration to Segregation: 3-44.
2006
“War and diaspora as lifelong learning contexts for immigrant women,”in Carol Leathwood and Becky Francis (eds.) Gender and Lifelong Learning: Critical Feminist Engagements. London: Routledge, 164-175.
“Gender, nation and diaspora: Kurdish women in feminist transnational struggles,” in Haideh Moghissi (ed.) Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity. London: Routledge: 116-132.
“Adult education without borders” in Fenwick, Tara, Tom Nesbit and Bruce Spencer (eds.) Contexts of Adult Education: Canadian Perspectives. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing: 347-356.
“Gender, political Islam and imperialism,” in Colin Moores (ed.) The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire. Oxford: Oneworld Publications:61-85.
2005
“Race and class,” in Tom Nesbit (ed.), Class Concerns: Adult Education & Social Class. New Directions in Adult and Continuing Education, no. 106. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass: 73-82.
2004
The particularity of ‘honour’ and the universality of ‘killing’: From early warning signs to feminist pedagogy,” in Mojab, S. and N. Abdo (eds.) Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, pp. 15-37.
Mojab, S. and N. Abdo “Introduction,”in Mojab, S. and N. Abdo (eds.) Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, pp. 1-12.
“From the ‘Wall of Shame’ to September 11: Wither adult education?” in Peter Kell, Michael Singh, and Sue Shore (eds.). Adult Education at 21st Century. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 3-19.
“No “Safe Haven” for women: Violence against women in Iraqi Kurdistan,” in W. Giles and J. Hyndman (eds.) Sites of Violence: Gender and Identity in Conflict Zones. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 108-133.
2003
Mojab, S. and B. Hall “Education of a non-state nation: Reconstructing a university in the war zone of Iraqi Kurdistan,” in Wayne Nelles (ed.) Comparative Education, Terrorism and Human Security. New York, Palgrave McMillan, pp. 159-173.
2002
“Equity coordinator: The change agent in an unyielding structure of power,” in Elena Hannah, Linda Paul, and Swani Vethamany-Globus (eds) Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Challenging the Chill, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, pp. 162-167.
2001
Bannerji, H. Mojab, S. and J. Whitehead “Introduction,” in Bannerji, H., S. Mojab and J. Whitehead (eds.) Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 1-33
Mojab, S. “Conflicting Loyalties: Nationalism and gender relations in Kurdistan,” in Bannerji, H., S. Mojab and J. Whitehead (eds.)Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 116-152.
‘Introduction: The solitude of the stateless: Kurdish women at the margins of feminist knowledge.’ In Mojab, S. (ed.) Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds. Costa Mesa, California: MAZDA Publishers, pp. 1-21.
‘Women and nationalism in Kurdish Republic of 1946.’ In Mojab, S. (ed.) Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds. Costa Mesa, California: MAZDA Publishers, pp. 71-91.
2000
“The power of economic globalization: Deskilling immigrant women through training,” Cervero, Ron M. and Arthur L. Wilson (eds.)Power in Practice: Adult Education and Struggle for Knowledge and Power in Society. New York: Jossey-Bass, pp. 23-41.
“Iranian women’s studies: Further steps toward internationalization of feminist inquiry,” in S. Mojab and A. Hojabri (eds.) Women of Iran: A Subject bibliography, Cambridge, MA: Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation, pp. 1-12.
“Frauen und nationalismus in der Kurdischen Republik von 1946,” [Feminism and nationalism in the Kurdish Republic of 1946] in Savelsberg, Eva, Siamend Hajo, and Carsten Borck (eds.) Kurdische Frauen und das Bild der Kurdischen Frau. Münster: LIT, pp. 129-155.
“Civilizing the State: the University in the Middle East,” in Inayatullah, S. and Gidley, J. (eds.) The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of The University, Greenwood, Westport, pp. 137-148.
1999
“The International Kurdish Women’s Studies Network,” Mapping the World of Women's Information Services: A Global Sourcebook. The Netherlands: The Know How on the World of Women's Information.
1997
“Women and the Gulf war: A critique of feminist responses," Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean and Renée T. White (eds.), Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures and Revolution. Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. pp. 61-82.
1995
“Education and human rights: Iran,” in John Daniel et al (eds.), Academic Freedom 3: Education and Human Rights. World University Service. London: Zed Books, p. 140-159.
“Politics of nationality and ethnic diversity.” With Hassanpour, A. In Rahnama, Saeed and Behdad, Sohrab (eds.) Iran After the Revolution: Crisis of an Islamic State. London: British Academic Press/Tauris, pp. 229-250.