Ashraf Zahedi, Ph.D. has conducted research at Center for Middle East Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley; and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University.  She has published many articles in academic journals including Iranian Studies, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Women’s Studies International Forum. She is, with Jennifer Heath, the co-editor of Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women.  Zahedi and Heath’s forthcoming book, Children of Afghanistan: The Path to Peace, will be published by the University of Texas Press in Fall 2014.