Beth Baron is Professor of History at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics (University of California Press, 2005) and The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press (Yale University Press, 1994), which was translated into Arabic by the Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt. She co-edited Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History (Mazda, 2000) and Women in Middle Eastern History (Yale University Press, 1991). Baron has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She co-founded and now co-directs the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) at the CUNY Graduate Center, for which she was recently awarded a Department of Education Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages grant for 2005-2007 of $192,000. Baron is currently writing a book on women, children, and social action in Egypt which examines the roles of American missionaries, British colonial wives, and Egyptian social reformers, among others, in shaping social welfare projects and reshaping women’s productive and reproductive lives.