Beth Baron is Professor of History at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Co-Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is the author of "The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press "(1994) and the coeditor of "Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender "(1991) and "Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie "(2000).