Two women two different worlds

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Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail

Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail is an Arab Palestinian, a religiously observant Muslim, and a political left-winger.

Rebecca Ranz

Rebecca Ranz is a religiously observant Jewish woman, an Israeli, and a political right-winger. We both live in Israel, a complex political context, and teach and conduct research in an Israeli academic institution. Both of us are wives, mothers, and grandmothers. In recent years we have been conducting research together on the experience of religious women and religious women students, both Muslim and Jewish, in secular academe. This joint research is the outcome of a partnership that developed despite the difference between us. Our shared experience as women and as religious women working in a secular sphere brought us together, and an alliance of ‘those who are different,’ through a process of self-examination, mutual sharing, and continuous dialogue, connected us.

In this article we present our voices, together and separately.