Nefissa Naguib, Ph.D. is associate professor in anthropology at Oslo University College. Currently she is a researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. She is author of Knowing Water(Oslo University College Press) and of several articles on women and war.Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Ph. D. is a researcher at the Department of Archeology, History, Culture- and Religious studies at the University of Bergen. She is the author of The quality of heroic living, of high endeavour and adventure: Anglican Mission, Women and Education in Palestine, 1888-1948 (Brill, 2002) and co-edited with Ingvild Flaskerud Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History(Berg, 2005).

"The texts included in the volume [...] constitute a body of research worthy of scholarly attention [...]", Alexandros Tsakos & Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos, Journal of Oriental & African Studies, Volume 18 (2009).

Nefissa Naguib, Ph.D. is associate professor in anthropology at Oslo University College. Currently she is a researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. She is author of Knowing Water(Oslo University College Press) and of several articles on women and war.Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Ph. D. is a researcher at the Department of Archeology, History, Culture- and Religious studies at the University of Bergen. She is the author of The quality of heroic living, of high endeavour and adventure: Anglican Mission, Women and Education in Palestine, 1888-1948 (Brill, 2002) and co-edited with Ingvild Flaskerud Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History(Berg, 2005).

"The texts included in the volume [...] constitute a body of research worthy of scholarly attention [...]", Alexandros Tsakos & Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos, Journal of Oriental & African Studies, Volume 18 (2009).

Nefissa Naguib, Ph.D. is associate professor in anthropology at Oslo University College. Currently she is a researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. She is author of Knowing Water(Oslo University College Press) and of several articles on women and war.Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Ph. D. is a researcher at the Department of Archeology, History, Culture- and Religious studies at the University of Bergen. She is the author of The quality of heroic living, of high endeavour and adventure: Anglican Mission, Women and Education in Palestine, 1888-1948 (Brill, 2002) and co-edited with Ingvild Flaskerud Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History(Berg, 2005).

"The texts included in the volume [...] constitute a body of research worthy of scholarly attention [...]", Alexandros Tsakos & Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos, Journal of Oriental & African Studies, Volume 18 (2009).