Women's Week 2003 - Media Images/Lived Realities: Women in the Middle East

Susan Schaefer Davis first went to Morocco with the Peace Corps in the 1960s to work in a rural women's center and has returned often, doing research on gender and working on development projects. She also is a social scientist with extensive experience as a development practitioner in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt for agencies including the World Bank, FAO, USAID and the Peace Corps. She has written numerous articles on these topics and two books, Patience and Power: Women's Lives in a Moroccan Village, and Adolescence in a Moroccan Town. She has traveled to Iraq, Palestine and Israel as Clerk of the Middle East Panel for the American Friends Service Committee. Her has undergraduate degree in psychology and a masters and doctoroate in anthropology from the University of Michigan, with post-doctoral work at Harvard.