It is vital that MENA countries more urgently recognize that the status of women is the key determinant to the development of their societies. This report provides important data to encourage reform in women's rights.

Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan

These reports constitute valuable contributions to our understanding of both the advances made and the challenges that lie ahead for women of the Middle East and North Africa.

Leila Ahmed, Harvard University

Particularly thorough in providing an update on legislative developments that are relevant for women. Helps to identify some cross-regional trends with preliminary thinking about how to address common challenges. . . . Recommended.

Choice Reviews

The struggle for women's rights is central to any lasting progress towards a more just and free society in the Middle East. Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa is an essential source for information and analysis about where that struggle is today, and where we need to make advances. I hope that this important study will inform the discussion about gender equality and mobilize concrete action in the region to bring about genuine change for the women of those societies.

Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran; visiting fellow, Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)