Introduction Haideh Moghissi Part I: Diaspora and Identity; Violence and Exile representation 1. Diaspora: History of a concept Denise Helly 2. Diaspora, violence and identity Mark J. Goodman 3.Islam and consecrated tortures Ezzat Mousallahnejad 4. Islam in diaspora and challenges to multiculturalism: Shar’ia in Canada Saeed Rahnema 5. Exilic reading of three religious texts – Reza Baraheni Part II: Home and Exile: Gender and the politics of memory 6. Divided communities of memory: diasporas come home Mary Ann Tetrault 7. Our reflections in their mirror Hammed Shahidam 8. In the shadow of Europe: Mediterranean diasporas and Identity: yesterday and today Ada Lonni 9. Gender, Nation and diaspora: Kurdish Women in Feminist Transnational Struggles Shahrzad Mojab 10. Discourses of Islam/Secularism and Identity building processes among Turkish university Youth Aylin Akpinar Part III: Contested terrains: Islam, Gender and struggles for continuity and change 11. The Hijab controversies in Western public schools: contrasting conceptions of ethnicity and of ethnic relations Mrie McAndrew 12. Islamophobia and Women of Pakistani descent in Bradford: the cris of ascribed and adopted identities Haleh Afshar, Robert Aikin and Myfanwy Franks 13. Diasporic Narratives on Virginity Fataneh Farahani 14. Iranian American elderly in California’s Santa Clara Valley: crafting selves and composing lives Mary Hegland 15. Like Parvin, like Najiba, like Heba, we are all different: reflections on voices of women in diaspora Afsaneh Hojabri
Biography
Haideh Moghissi
