Ibtissam Bouachrine is the current chair and an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Smith College. She has also served as director of the Middle East Studies Program and as codirector of the Women’s Education Concentration. Her research is centered on women and gender issues in Islam. Bouachrine has published and lectured on feminism and democracy in North Africa, Islam in Europe, and Muslim–Western relations before and since 1492. Her book Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique (2014) calls for a shift away from the unproductive paradigm of “us” vs. the West that has informed discourse on Muslim women and feminism in the post–September 11 era. Currently, she is working on a book-length project on women’s education in Muslim-majority countries.