What is daily life like for Arab women of today? How does a western woman run workshops on leadership for university women who are not permitted to create their own course materials or even to show their faces in public? Over the past two years, Philippa Kelly has been working with Arab university professors in Riyadh, Abha City, and Najran. She has also recently been asked to collaborate with a female Saudi co-author to advise the Saudi Ministry on the position of women in Saudi Arabian universities. The experience has profoundly affected all involved, and much commonality has been found - personally as well as professionally - within a world of difference.
Philippa Kelly, resident dramaturg for the California Shakespeare Theater, trained as a Shakespeare scholar and has been awarded numerous scholarships and fellowships. She has published 35 articles and seven books, and teaches regularly in Australia, North America, and the Middle East.
