Zeina Zaatari

 

Zeina Zaatari is the Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the Global Fund for Women in San Francisco, California. Zeina received her Ph.D. in September 2003 in Cultural Anthropology (with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory) at the University of California at Davis. Previously, she held the position of Lecturer between 2002-04 in Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Davis and the California State University, San Francisco and Sacramento. Zeina conducted fieldwork with women’s organizations and women activists in South Lebanon within the context of civil society, political participation and prolonged years of war and conflict. Her current research project is entitled, "Interrogating Lebanese Heteronormativity: Family, Adulthood, and Citizenship."  Zeina is a founding member of the Radical Arab Women Activist Network (RAWAN) and Sunbula: Arab Feminists for Change, and is one of a collective of producers for Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, on KPFA 94.1 in Berkeley, California

 

Research Project: Visual Media and the Making of Citizens and Gendered Subjects

 

Links: www.globalfundforwomen.org

 

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

§  “The Production of Knowledge on Women, Gender, and Islamic Cultures: International Development Agencies.” In The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, General Editor Suad Joseph, Online Editor Hoda Elsadda. Netherlands: Brill Publishing, Brill Online. http://www.brillonline.nl/subscriber/entry?entry=ewic_COM-0682, 2010.

§  “In the Belly of the Beast: Struggling for Nonviolent Belonging.” In Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging, edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber, pp. . NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010.

§  “Women and Leadership in the Middle East and North Africa.” In Gender and Women’s Leadership: A Reference Handbook, Edited by Karen P. O’Connor, pp.363-371. UK: Sage Publications, Inc., 2010

§  “Ta’ziz Huquq Al-Mar’a fi Manatiq al-niza’: dirasa ‘ayniyya li-manatiq mukhtara fi al-mintaqa al-‘arabiyya” [Strengthening Women’s Rights in Conflict Zone: Case Study of Select Regions in the Arab World,” New York: UN ESCWA, 2007. http://www.escwa.org.lb/divisions/events/13march07Women.pdf. (in Arabic)

§   “The Culture of Motherhood: An Avenue for Women’s Civil Participation,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 2(1):33-64, 2006

 

Research Title: Lebanese Heteronormativity: Family, Adulthood, and Citizenship

    * In the Belly of the Beast: Struggling for Non-Violent Belonging, The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, special issue Gender, Nation and Belonging: Arab and Arab American Feminist Perspectives, 5 (Spring):75-87. http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/intro.htm, 2005.

    * Lebanese Country Report, In Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Citizenship and Justice. NY: Freedom House, Inc and Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/menasurvey/, 2005.