Mona Chemali Khalaf
Assistant Professor of Economics, Lebanese American University, Beirut
Mona Chemali Khalaf is an assistant professor of Economics at the Lebanese American University (LAU). She has served as the director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at the LAU from October 1997 to September 2005. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Gender Economic Research and Policy Analysis Initiative (GERPA), established by the World Bank and CAWTAR in 2006. She is a member of the editorial board of Al-Raida, a quarterly magazine dealing with women’s issues in the Arab world. Previously she was a member of the Lebanese NGO Commission for the Preparation of the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women, the Lebanese National Commission for Women Affairs (1996-1999), and the Board of Trustees of the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), 1996-1999. She was the senior coordinator of the Basic Living Skills Program (2003), a non-formal integrated educational kit in Arabic, geared towards illiterate and semi-literate women in the Arab world. She has written extensively about women, gender, economics, and the labor market and post war. Her research presently focuses on migration and women.
Research Project: Exploring the Migration of Young Lebanese Couples, Male Migration and Feminization of the Lebanese Family
Selected Publications:
* Male Migration and the Lebanese Family: The Impact on the Wife Left Behind, The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (special issue on War and Transnational Families) (in press), Fall 2009.
* “Lebanon” in Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, Citizenship and Justice, Freedom House (in press), December 2009.
* Evaluating the Status of Lebanese Women in light of the Beijing Platform for Action, the United Nations Development Fund for Women. Arab State Regional Office (both in English and Arabic), 2002.
* Women in Post War Lebanon, in Kail, C. Ellis, Lebanon’s Second Republic, Prospects for the Twenty-first Century, University Press of Florida, pp.146-156, 2002.
* Women’s Studies: Middle East and North Africa, in Routledge International Encyclopedia for Women, Vol. 4, pp. 2095-2099, 2000.