New Release: Burrill on "Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali"

New from Ohio University Press: States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali , by Emily S. Burrill (University of North...

New Release: Ibrahim, "Pragmatism in Islamic Law"

New from Syracuse University Press: Pragmatism in Islamic Law : A Social and Intellectual History , by Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim (McGill Universi...

New Release: Cuno, "Modernizing Marriage"

New from Syracuse University Press: Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt , by Ke...

New Release: Stockreiter, "Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar"

New from Cambridge University Press: Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar (April 2015), by Elke Stockreiter (Un...

Witchcraft in Tanzania

From the Daily Telegraph : SOME 3000 people suspected of witchcraft, mainly old women, were lynched in Tanzania from 2005 to 2011, a leading...

Women - Culprits of Domestic Abuse

From AllAfrica : Abuse of women and children is gradually taking the better half of the society, and even the world today. Everyday there ar...

Rape In Wartime

From CNN - Listening to the Victims : It began as a headache. Then her throat started to feel tight. A dull pain welled in her chest and her...