Shahrzad Mojab is the Director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto and Professor at the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology، the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE/UT). Shahrzad's areas of research and teaching are minority women's access to education; educational policy studies; comparative and international education; anti-racism education; critical and feminist pedagogy; feminism and nationalism; gender، state، diaspora and transnationality; women، war، militarization and violence; women، war and learning; and feminism، colonialism and imperialism; and cultural relativism as an ideological tool. Her publications include، among others، articles and book chapters on ‘Islamic Feminism’، feminism and nationalism، adult education and the construction of civil society in the Middle East، women’s NGOs and transnationalism، and diaspora، feminism and neo-liberalism. She is the editor of Women of A Non States Nation: The Kurds، co-editor of Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism، and Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges. She is currently conducting SSHRC-funded research on war، diaspora، and learning; women political prisoners in the Middle East; and war and transnational women’s organizations (Women، War، Diaspora، and Learning: Research Resources: www.utoronto.ca/wwdl.)