Professor Anna Rocca publishes a chapter in Femmes d’Islam dans la littérature, le cinéma, et l’art contemporain [Women of Islam in Literature, Cinema and Contemporary Art]

World languages and cultures professor of French and Italian Anna Rocca publishes a chapter in Femmes d’Islam dans la littérature, le cinéma, et l’art contemporain [Women of Islam in Literature, Cinema and Contemporary Art]. Published in Paris, the book collection examines the interconnections between feminism and contemporary female authors of Islam’s artistic representations of women. Rocca’s work entitled "La spiritualité incarnée: Lalla Essaydi et les femmes du Maroc” [The incarnated spirituality: Lalla Essaydi and Moroccan Women] delves into her ‘Dis-Orientalist’ strategies in Converging Territories (2005), Les Femmes du Maroc (2009), and Harem (2010).