Sarah Dusend is a PhD candidate at the Bonn International Schools – Oriental and Asian Studies, Department for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bonn. She wrote her master thesis on the Second Eastern Women’s Congress that took place in Tehran in 1932. Her current project focuses on three women’s pilgrimage reports written by Qajar women at the end of the 19th century. These accounts describe their journey to Mecca as well as to the Shiite shrines in Iraq and will be analyzed in the context of Qajar women’s travelling, perceptions of space and how class and gender affected mobility and narrations of travel.