Lecture by Rudi Matthee at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Matthee is Professor Women and Gender Studies at University of Delaware with expertise in Middle Eastern history.

Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental research in the sciences and humanities—the original, often speculative thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world. Work at the Institute takes place in four Schools.