Malek Abisaab

About The Author

Malek Abisaab is Associate Professor at McGill University in the departments of History and Classical Studies and the Institute of Islamic Studies. A historian, his work focuses on gender, labor, Islamism, and the nation-state in the Middle East. His books include, Militant Women of a Fragile Nation (Syracuse UP, 2010) and (with Rula Jurdi Abisaab) The Shiites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah’s Islamists (Syracuse UP, 2017).

Books by Malek Abisaab

Memoirs of a Militant

My Years in the Khiam Women's Prison

By Nawal Qasim Baidoun
Edited by Malek Abisaab / Translated by Caline Nasrallah and Michelle Hartman
  • A first person account of a young woman activist imprisoned for four years in the notorious Khiam Women's Prison
  • Shattering the notion that Muslim women did not play an active role in armed resistance and national liberation struggles
  • A unique and rare insight into t...
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