Ibtissam Bouachrine is a professor at Smith College and a faculty associate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Her scholarship and teaching focus on women and girls’ human rights in Africa and the Middle East. She is the author of two books on women and gender in Muslim-majority societies, Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique (2014) and Anthem of Misogyny: The War on Women in North Africa and the Middle East (2022). 

Bouachrine’s research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. In 2023, she was awarded a prestigious residency from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. Bouachrine is a 2024–25 Public Voices Fellow on Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls with the OpEd Project and Equality Now.