Dr. Ibtissam Bouachrine

Biography

Ibtissam Bouachrine is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Her scholarship focuses on women's human rights in Africa and the Middle East. Bouachrine is the author of two notable books, 'Women and Islam' (2014) and 'Anthem Misogyny' (2022), and her current research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence, law, and women’s digital rights. In the 2022-2023 academic year, she was a visiting scholar at the Institute Rebooting, where she began her current book project tentatively titled 'Digital Lives of Muslim Women'. Bouachrine's research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the American Academy in Rome, and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. She has previously served as a visiting scholar at the Center for European Mediterranean Studies at New York University and in 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency.

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