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Zahra Ali is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology, with affiliations to the Program in Women's and Gender Studies and the Global Urban Studies Program. Her work focuses on women and gender studies, race, class, and social/political movements in the Middle East, particularly Iraq, with an emphasis on decolonial theories, transnational feminisms, and critical epistemologies.
Education includes a PhD in Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2015), alongside MA and BA degrees from Université Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne. She teaches courses on gender, Islam, postcolonial theory, and global cities.
Ali leads the Critical Studies of Iraq initiative, fostering scholarship by Iraqi social scientists and feminists. Her research analyzes Iraq's 2019 uprising through a lens of life, space, and emancipation beyond power/resistance binaries. Major publications include Women and Gender in Iraq (2018), Decolonial Pluriversalism (2024), and Féminismes islamiques (2020).
Her articles explore topics like Iraq's Thawra Teshreen uprising, gender fragmentation post-2003 invasion, and transnational feminist solidarity. Awards include Carnegie Corporation grants and the MESA Wadad Kadi Fellowship. Ali collaborates with scholars and activists across the Middle East, working in English, French, and Arabic.
