"Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middole East"

Oct. 13, 2010 - PRLog -- Stamford, CT – Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, will discuss her new book, Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East at a World Affairs Forum program on November 10 at UCONN/Stamford. The program starts at a NEW TIME, 5:45 P.M., with networking and refreshments followed by the presentation at 6:15 P.M.

The Washington Post reviewing Paradise Beneath Her Feet said the book focuses “especially on five countries where women's rights are most tenuous, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq -- to support her view that while keeping women down keeps a nation down, the battle for gender equality is a continuing process and women are becoming smarter about engaging it. Coleman believes the Middle East's small but persistent streams of female activists are more likely to swell than to subside, and that with time they have the capacity to erode the barriers that have held them and their countries back.”

Refreshments and Presentation Fee: $20
Free for Forum and Ambassadors’ Roundtable members, Faculty and Students.                                        
For reservations, please contact the World Affairs Forum at 203-356-0340 or     E-mail: info@worldaffairsforum.org.  

The University of Connecticut Stamford Campus is located on the corner of Broad Street & Washington Blvd.  Parking is available in the UCONN Parking Garage on Washington Blvd. – 2nd floor.

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