VIDEO: Women Transforming the Middle East

Isobel Coleman, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses how the rise of a political Islam, which often condemns women's empowerment as anti-Islamic, Western cultural imperialism, has strengthened the women's movement. InParadise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East, she shows how the growing movement of Islamic feminism has led Muslim women and men to develop progressive interpretations of Islam to support women's rights. To here the discussion, please click here.