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Check out the following Gulf News article, which mentions the “Famous Fathers and Daughters in Islam” panel organized by Alyssa Gabbay at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting in Boston, November 2009:  http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/rulers-should-consult-academics-1.532316.

Upcoming talks:

“Ruling Daughters: Sultan Radiyya (d. 1240 C.E.) and Female Sovereignty in Medieval Islamicate Societies,”  Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 6:30 p.m., Denny Hall 216, University of Washington, Seattle. See http://depts.washington.edu/nelc/events.html for more details!

“From Ill-Starred to Auspicious: Depictions of Daughters in Firdawsi’s Shahnama,” May, 2010, at the Eighth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, Los Angeles, California.