Adjunct of Sociology
MTS Harvard University
217
Pafford
(678) 839-6505
astevens@post.harvard.edu
Afaf Stevens is an Adjunct Faculty at the University of West Georgia. Ms. Stevens will be teaching Women and Social Change and Arabic Language and Culture. Ms. Stevens earned her B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Baghdad-Iraq, M.Ed. from University of Massachusetts and MTS from Harvard University. Ms. Stevens, born in Baghdad-Iraq, now an American citizen, is an educator and women activist. During her extensive travel throughout the Middle East, Europe and Africa, she lived four years in East Africa where she worked as a social worker advocating women’s needs and community development. Focusing on women’s issues, Ms. Stevens worked passionately to further the fulfillment of women’s potentialities, self-esteem, training and empowerment. For the last thirty years, while raising her family in the United States, a daughter and a son, Ms. Stevens traveled throughout the Mid West, East Coast, Alaska and Canada lecturing on Women and Culture in the Middle East and her East West Peace Initiative project. While working diligently on women issues in the United States, Ms. Stevens Co-founded two non profit organizations for the advancement of women; The Sarah Farmer Women Center in Eliot, ME and Tahereh Peace Institute in Boston, MA Ms. Stevens’ primary interest is women’s advancement and the establishment of genuine understanding and mutual respect between the peoples of East and West.
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
WOMEN AND SOCIAL CHANGE