Out of the Shadows presents for the first time the narratives of Muslim women activists in the Islamic Movement in Israel from the 1980s to the present. Based on their personal and collective experiences, the book illuminates the history of the Movement and Palestinian Arab society in Israel.

The women navigate complex, intersecting identities — gender, religious, national, and intergenerational — against the backdrop of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This groundbreaking study reveals how they create their own distinct political space and exercise agency as pious Muslim women, while navigating generational tensions, internal divisions, and the influence of Israeli society and feminism.