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The Sense of Islam Lecture Series: Modern Arabian Women |
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In the final Sense of Islam lecture, Jill Koolmees draws upon her experience as an English language teacher with the British Council in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to discuss the attitudes of Saudi Arabian women to modernity and change in the domestic and civil sphere. Jill is the author of My Desert Kingdom, a memoir of her time as an expatriate wife and teacher in Saudi Arabia, and an exploration of how Saudi Arabia is negotiating the path between tradition and modernity in its particular Islamic context.
Jill Koolmees is a graduate of Politics, Literature and Education who has travelled widely in countries that include Morocco and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She became a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, met her husband teaching in Melbourne, and followed him to work in Saudi Arabia. Jill is the author of My Desert Kingdom - Finding a life in Saudi Arabia, published by Bantam in 2004.
The Sense of Islam lecture series is presented by Almanar Consultancy, the Asia Education Foundation and Asialink. A flyer for the series is available at: http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/cpp/events/index.html
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