Dr. Valentine Moghadam, Director of the International Affairs Program and Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University, “Feminisms and Democratic Transitions: the Arab Spring in Comparative Perspective.”
Dr. Rae Blumberg, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, “Patriarchy, Petroleum, and the Middle East vs. the ‘Islamic Surprise.’”
Lorna Lueker Zukas 