Zakia Salime is a Fulbright scholar and Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University. She was The Presidential Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at the University Paris-8 Vincennes- Saint Denis. She is the author of Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco (Minnesota 2011) and co-editor of Freedom Without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke 2016). She has published extensively on gender, women's movement, Moroccan Islamism, and youth cultural and political movements in the MENA region and is currently working on a book manuscript on gender and land rights in Morocco. Salime's work was featured in the New York times and the Washington Post.