Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Ziba Mir-Hosseini is an independent consultant, researcher and writer on Middle Eastern issues, specialising in gender, family relations, Islam, law and development. She obtained her PhD in Social Anthropology in 1980 at the University of Cambridge; and between 1990 and 1993 she held a Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge. She is currently Research Associate at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge and at the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. (03/02)

Dr. Mir-Hosseini is the author of "Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law in Iran and Morocco" (I. B. Tauris, 1993), "Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran" (Princeton University Press, 1999; I. B. Tauris, 2000), and most recently "Feminism and the Islamic Republic: Dialogues with the Ulema" (Princeton University Press, 1999). She has also produced with Kim Longinotto, two feature-length documentaries on contemporary issues in Iran: "Divorce Iranian Style" (1998) and "Runaway" (2001).

Divorce Iranian Style
A film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 1998, 80 min., Color
Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circums...

Runaway
A film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 2001, 87 min., Color
RUNAWAY is a powerful and heart-breaking documentary about a group of young runaway girls who are taken to a women's shelter in Tehran-Iran. The film ...