Author: Shakira Hussein & Jenny Pringle

Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the Asia Institute at The University of Melbourne. Her book 'From Victims to Suspects: Muslim women since 9/11' is published by New South' Dr Helen Pringle is a senior lecturer at the University of NSW. Her main research interests are in the area of human rights and justice, and in political theory (with a focus on 17th and 19th centuries). She is working on a project concerning the place of pornography within considerations of free speech, entitled Practising Pornography, and I am also involved in an international research project on ethnography and sexual slavery in early colonial Queensland.