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Reza Aslan

Speaking at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, (Saeed Saeed, The National, 29.04.13), Reza Aslan, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has praised the UAE for its progressive vision in regards to women in the workplace. “This changes the perceptions which is so important,” he said. “So when multinationals come here they realise their assumptions were incorrect and they can hire more women in the region.” Pink-Lady-Taxis-500x329

Kathy Lette

Writing in Scotland on Sunday (31.03.13), Kathy Lette, the wife of Geoffrey Robertson QC, a leading human rights lawyer who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, states that there ”is much talk about the future being female, as catalogued in Hanna Rosin’s bestseller The End of Men: And the Rise of Women.”

Hanna Rosin

Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “Misery memoirs: why is it different for Muslim women?” (Samira Ahmed, The Guardian, 18.04.13): “Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s 2006 brave memoir Infidel had important insights, from her work as a translator for Dutch social services in Leiden, into how politically correct attitudes among the authorities were blighting the lives of Muslim refugee women experiencing domestic violence. Like the Iranian-born literature professor Azar Nafisi, author of widely acclaimed Reading Lolita In Tehran, she suffered vitriolic attacks from some writers and political activists, Muslim and non-Muslim, who claimed the books were somehow “Orientalist” artefacts, serving an American neo-Conservative political agenda in the aftermath of the Iraq war.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Samira Ahmed

Reza Aslan

Writing in “Women in the Workforce in the Arab World” (Council on Foreign Relations (11.04.13), Reza Aslan, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, states that “Chamlou highlighted the efforts of Dubai’s Sheikh Muhammad, who recently enacted a plan to force all public boards in the country to be composed 50 percent of women.”

Nadereh Chamlou

Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter, the U.S. literary critic who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “Gail Collins, “New York Times” Columnist, to speak April 30, 2013″ (Read Media, 09.04.13): Cultural critic Elaine Showalter said, “Collins’s message is inspiring and timely, and all the techniques she employs to make this book fun to read- and impossible to deny- deserve critical praise as well as popular success.”

Gail Collins