Ayesha S. Chaudhry is Canada Research Chair, and professor of gender and Islamic studies at the University of British Columbia. In 2018, she was named a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition.
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At the age of twenty-three, Ayesha removed her face veil to begin her studies in New York City. Braiding together Western, South Asian, and Qur'anic storytelling styles, the author illuminates what it means to exist in a world that demands somethin... SEE MORE