How Women are Changing the Middle East
Isobel Coleman greeted the crowd at MOCA Grand Avenue with some regret. “I’ve actually spent more time in Riyadh and in Kabul than in Los Angeles in my lifetime,” the Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow said. “That’s a very poor trade-off.” But Coleman, author of Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East, brought the lessons of her travels throughout the Middle East and Central Asia home. At an event co-sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, she explained how women in the region …
