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Lake Forest, Ill.— “Iraqi Women: Then and Now,” will be the title of a talk by Dr. Elizabeth Fernea at Lake Forest College on Wednesday, February 25 at 7:30 p.m. The lecture is open to the public and will be held in Meyer Auditorium, located in Hotchkiss Hall on the College’s Middle Campus. There is no charge for admission. For more information please call 847-735-6010. Fernea, a writer, filmmaker, and professor emeritus of English and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas-Austin, has for the past 40 years focused her studies on women and the family in the Middle East. Her lecture will address the rapid change in traditional roles due to economic shifts, globalization, migrant labor, and the movement of rural peoples to urban centers. Fernea’s books include: Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village; A Street in Marrakech; Middle Eastern Women Speak; In Search of Islamic Feminism: Remembering Childhood in the Middle East – Memoirs from a Century of Change. Her films include: “A Veiled Revolution” for Channel 4, London; “Living with the Past: Historic Cairo” for ECHO Productions. The lecture is part of the College’s Global Issues Symposium and is sponsored in large part by the Mojekwu Fund for Intercultural Understanding. Lake Forest College is a private, liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 46 states and 50 other countries.
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