Core Group Members

Lamis Abu Nahleh

Associate Professor, Institute for Women’s Studies, Birzeit University

Lamis Abu Nahleh is an associate professor and researcher at Birzeit University. She has conducted research on gender and education, the Palestinian family and household, and gender case studies in gender and various development sectors, including women’s micro-credit projects, community-based rehabilitation program, gender integration into industrial schools, gender analysis and planning in the Palestinian National Authority, Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Empowerment in the Palestinian context, and “Honor Killing” in Palestine. She is also engaged in training activities in the area of gender policy analysis and planning and in the planning and evaluations of gender integration and mainstreaming in development policies, plans and projects.

 

Research Project: Marriages and Movements: Weddings and Wars

 

Links: http://www.birzeit.edu/institutes/wom_std/

 

Selected Publications

 

    * Honor Killing: Honor Crimes in Palestine from 2004-2006, published by Palestinian Non-Governmental Organization Against Domestic Violence Against Women (Al Muntada), Palestine, 2007. (Also available in Arabic)

    * Six Families: Survival and Mobility in Times of Crisis in Living Palestine: Family, Survival, Resistance and Mobility under Occupation, edited by Lisa TarakiNY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. (Also now available in Arabic, published by Institute of Palestine Studies)

    * Promoting the Status of Gender in The Community Based Rehabilitation Program in Palestine, a Working Paper, Jerusalem: Diakonia /NAD, March 2003.

    * The Palestinian Ministry of Youth and Sports: A Case Study of Gender Integration, by Lamis Abu Nahleh, Islah Jad and Lisa Taraki, was published by Direction du Developpement et de la Cooperation (DDC) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Regional Support Office for the Arab States Urban Management Programme, Cairo, Egypt: June 2000.

    * Gender Planning, Vocational Education, and Technical Training (VETT) in Palestine, published by the World University Service (UK), September 1996. (Also published in Arabic.)

Ibrahim Elnur

Associate Professor of Political Science & Coordinator of Professional Development Program at the American University in Cairo

 

D.Phil. in Development studies, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, Doctorate in Economic Science, KMU, Budapest, Hungary, December, 1979, B.Sc. (honors), Pure Theory, University of Khartoum, April, 1973, a B.Sc. in Economics, Cairo University, Egypt (1970). Previously: Director of the Middle East Research Awards (MEAwards) at the Population Council, Cairo (1999-2001), Visiting Researcher, OAS-AUC, Co-founder and coordinator of the Group for Alternative Policies for Sudan (GAPS) (1996-1999), Associate Professor, El Fatih University, Tripoli, Libya (1995-1996), Head Department of Economics, Juba University, Sudan (1990-1995), and Assistant Professor at the same university since 1986.

 

Dr. Elnur is currently the Coordinator of Professional Development Program, Political Science Department at AUC. Elnur is the co-coordinator of the group on Reconstruction of war torn communities (RWCMEA) and the Sudanese Diaspora Research Group (SDRN). His current research and teaching Interests includes the following: Development and International Political Economy, population dynamics with emphasis on migration-development nexus, public policy, economics of education, health, and war and reconstruction. His publications and research interests focus on reconstruction of war torn communities, the state and globalization, urban poverty, changing conditions of educated elite reproduction, new urbanities-ruralities, modernities; survival strategies, feminization of the labor process and family dynamics, alternative development policies and the economics of education and health.

 

Research Project: War, Diasporas, and Reproduction of Social Class among Sudanese Elite

 

Links: www.aucegypt.edu/rwcmea

 

Selected Publications

 

    * Contested Sudan: The Political Economy of war and Reconstruction, Routledge Middle east Studies, Routledge, 2009 .

    * Sudan: From Prolonged Civil wars to Fragile Peace, background paper for the Arab Human Development 2009 (UNDP, AHDR), 2009.

    * Differentiation in the Educational Systems, Diasporas and Reproduction of Educated Elites, in Social Science in the Arab World, Turkey and Iran: Determinants, State and Potentials ed. A. Ben Hafaiedh and M. El Jaziri, 2004.

    * 11 September and the Widening North-South Gap: Root Causes of Terrorism in the Global Order, Arab Studies Quarterly, 2003.

    * The Second Boat of African New Diaspora: Looking at the Other Side of the Global Divide with Emphasis on Sudan, African Issues, 2002.

Hoda Elsadda

Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, School of Language, Linguistics and Cultures, at the University of Manchester

 

Professor Hoda Elsadda currently holds a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University, and is Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK. She has previously held the position of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, at Cairo University, Egypt. In 1992, she co-founded and co-edited Hagar, an interdisciplinary journal in women’s studies published in Arabic. In 1997, she co-founded and is currently Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Women and Memory Forum, a research organization which focuses on reading Arab cultural history from a gender-sensitive perspective. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies IJMES (2005- present); member of the Advisory Board of the Durham Modern Languages Series (2009-); member of the Middle East Panel in the British Academy (2008-present); Associate Editor of the Online Edition of the Encyclopedia of Women in Muslim Cultures published by Brill (2006 – present); member of the Board of Directors of The Global Fund for Women(2009-); Consultant Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Second Edition,(2006-2009); member of the Advisory Committee, The Anna Lindh Euro- Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (2004-2007); and member of the Core Team, The Arab Human Development Report, UNDP in 2003. She was a fellow at the International Centre for Research on Women in Washington DC in 1997 and World Yale Fellow in 2003.

 

Research Projects: Blogging in Egypt and Palestine: The Creation of New Cultural Public Spheres, Gender and Nation in the Literature of the 1990s in Egypt

 

Links: www.wmf.org.eg, www.casaw.ac.uk

Selected Publications

 

    * al-mar’a al-’arabiyya mawdu’an l-il dirasa: tahlil naqdi li taqrir al-tanmiya al-’insaniyya al-’arabi 2005 (The Arab woman as an object of study: A critical reading of the Arab Human Development Report 2005) in ‘intaj al-ma’rifa ‘an al-’alam al-’arabi, (The production of knowledge on the Arab world) edited and introduced by Hoda Elsadda. Cairo, al-majlis al-’ala lil thaqafa, 2009.

    * “Egypt,” Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide 1873-1999. Edited Radwa Ashour, Ferial Ghazoul and Hasna Mekdashi, trans. By Mandy McClure. Cairo and New York, The American University Press, 2008. The article was first published in Arabic in 2004 as “Al-Kitaba al-`Ibda’iyya lil Nisa’ fi Misr” (Women’s Creative Writing in Egypt) in Thakira lil Mustaqbal: Mawsu’at al-Mar’a al-`Arabiyya (The Memory of the Future: An Encyclopaedia of Arab Women’s Writings). Cairo, Nour and The Supreme Council of Culture, pp.7-59.

    * Imaging the ‘New Man’: Gender and Nation in Arab Literary Narratives in the Early Twentieth Century, in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 3: 2, pp. 31-55, Spring 2007.

    * Gendered Citizenship: Discourses on Domesticity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century, in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 4:1 pp.1-28, 2006.

    * Discourses on Women’s Biographies and Cultural Identity: Twentieth Century Representations of the Life of `Aisha Bint Abi Bakr, in Feminist Studies, 27:1 (Spring), pp.37-64, 2001.

                   

Omnia El Shakry

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis

 

Omnia El Shakry is an intellectual historian at the University of California, Davis where she teaches courses on Modern Middle East History and World History. Her research interests relate to the history of social science in Egypt and the formulation of a post-colonial national modernity.

 

Research Project: A Genealogy of the Concept of Youth: Emerging Categories in Egyptian Public Discourse

 

Links: http://history.ucdavis.edu/faculty/El%20Shakry_Omnia

 

Selected Publications

 

    * Artistic Sovereignty in the Shadow of Post-Socialism: Egypt’s 20th Annual Youth Salon, e-flux journal 7, July 2009. http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/70

    * 20th Annual Salon El Shabab: Youth, Art, and Controversy, (in English, Arabic, and German), Nafas Art Magazine, April 2009. http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2009/20_salon_of_you...

    * The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt, Stanford University Press, 2007.

    * Cairo as Capital of Socialist Revolution? in Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East, edited by Diane Singerman and Paul Amar (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press), pp. 73-98, 2006.

Barbara Lethem Ibrahim

Director, John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement, American University in Cairo

 

Barbara Lethem Ibrahim is founding director of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement, established in 2006 at the American University in Cairo. Prior to that, she served for fourteen years as regional director for West Asia and North Africa at the Population Council. From 1982 to 1990, she was program officer at the Ford Foundation regional office in Cairo, responsible for programs in urban poverty, micro enterprise lending, and gender studies. She has been an international visiting scholar at the Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University (2008) and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University (2005). She served as a past or current board member of African Women in Crisis, Virtual Activism, the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies Egypt, and Voices for a Democratic Egypt. She speaks internationally on the topics of Arab youth in civic participation and philanthropy/social investing in the Arab world. Her BA is from DePauw University, MA in Sociology from the American University of Beirut, and PhD in Sociology from Indiana University. In 1999 she was inducted into the International Educators’ Hall of Fame. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies in 2003.

 

Research Project: The Civic Struggles of Urban Egyptian Youth

 

Links: http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/rc/gerhartcenter/Pages/default.aspx

 

Selected Publications

 

    * From Charity to Social Change: Trends in Arab Philanthropy (chapter author, volume editor with Dina Sherif) American University in Cairo Press: October, 2008.

    * Strengthening Philanthropy and Civic Engagement in the Arab World: A Mission for the John D. Gerhart Center Voices in Philanthropy and Civic Engagement, Working Paper #1, American University in Cairo, October 2006.

    * Negotiating Leadership Roles: Young Women’s Experience in Rural Egypt, with Martha Brady and Rania Salem. Women’s Studies Quarterly, special issue on “Women and Development: Rethinking Policy and Reconceptualizing Practice”, 2004.

    * The Costs of Marriage in Egypt: A Hidden Variable in the New Arab Demography, with Diane Singerman. The New Arab Family (ed. Hopkins). Cairo Papers in Social Science, volume 24, numbers 1/2, 80-116, 2003.

    * Decline in Female Circumcision in Egypt: Evidence and Interpretation, with Omaima El-Gibaly, Barbara Mensch, and Wesley Clark. Social Science and Medicine. volume 54 no. 2. January, 2002.

 

Islah Jad

Assistant Professor, Gender and Development at Birzeit University

Islah Jad, Assistant Professor of Gender and Development at Birzeit University.

Islah is one of the founders of the Women’s Studies Institute at Birzeit University in 1994, and of WATC (Women’s Affairs Technical Committee) in 1992, a national coalition for women. She published many works on the Palestinian and Arab women political participation and political development. She was the co-author for the Arab Human Development Report of 2005. She obtained her PhD in Gender and Development from the Department of Development Studies, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies –University of London) in 2004. Islah is a senior researcher on gender issues in the Arab region and Palestine; she did many consultations for different Palestinian ministries, international organizations, and NGOs. She is a senior gender trainer. Islah is an Assistant professor working in the Cultural Studies Department and the MA program on Gender and Development in the Institute of the Women’s Studies. Currently, Islah is the director of the Women’s Studies Institute at Birzeit University. She is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.

 

Research Project: The Politics of Group Weddings in Palestine: Political and Gender Tensions

 

Links: www.birzeit.edu/wsi

 

Selected Publications:

 

    * The ‘NGOisation’ of the Arab Women’s Movement, IDS Bulletin, Sussex University Press, October 2003.

    * Mobilization without Sovereignty in the Oslo Period, in Sherifa Zuhur, Women and Gender in the Islamic World, Berkeley: UCIA and UC Press, 2003.

    * Islamist Women of Hamas: A New Women’s Movement? In Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone (ed.) On Shifting Ground; Muslim Women in a Global Era, Feminist Press, 2005.

    * Women at the Cross-Roads, (in Arabic), Muwatin Institute for the Study of Democracy. Palestine.

    * Arab Human Development Report (2005): Women’s Empowerment, UNDP, New York. Launched on December 2006.

Penny Johnson

Associate Researcher, Institute of Women’s Studies and co-editor of the Institute’s Review of Women’s Studies, Birzeit University

Penny Johnson is an associate researcher at the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University in Palestine and co-editor of the Institutes’ Annual Review of Women’s Studies. Her recent publications and research interests have focused women’s narratives of the Palestinian present, gender and the second Palestinian intifada, violence, kinship and Palestinian household and family dynamics. She was a member of the first Palestinian National Commission for Poverty Eradication and is an associate editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly.

 

Research Project: Marriages and Movements: Weddings and Wars

 

Selected Publications

 

    * Forthcoming. What Rosemary Saw: Reflections on Palestinian Women as Tellers of the Palestinian Present, Journal of Palestine Studies. Special issue in honor of Rosemary Sayigh

    * Violence all around us: Dilemmas of global and local agendas addressing violence against Palestinian women, an initial intervention, Cultural Dynamics, 20(2): pp 119-132. London: Sage Publications, 2008.

    * Tales of Strength and Danger: Sahar and the Tactics of Everyday Life in Amari Refugee Camp, Palestine Signs Volume 32, No. 3: 597-620, Spring 2007.

    * Palestinian Single Women: Agency, Choice, Responsibility Review of Women’s Studies 4. Birzeit: Institute of Women’s Studies, Birzeit University, 2007.

Suad Joseph

Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis

Suad Joseph is professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the founding director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies

program at UC Davis. Her research has focused on her native Lebanon, on the politicization of religion, on women in local communities, on women, family and state, and on questions of self, citizenship, and rights. Her current research is a long-term longitudinal study on how children in a village of Lebanon learn their notions of rights, responsibilities, and citizenship in the aftermath of the civil war. She is founder and facilitator of the Arab Families Working Group (AFWG). She is founder and first president of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS)

 

and co-founder of AMEW’s Journal for Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) published by Indiana University Press. She is also founder and facilitator for the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo, the Lebanese American University, the University of California, and Birzeit University Collaborative Initiative. She was awarded the Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award and the Graduate Mentor Award at UC Davis. She has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the International Development Research Center, the Population Council, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies, and the Doha International Foundation for Family Studies and Development.

 

Research Project: Transnational Lebanese Families and Youth: Moveable Citizenship

 

Links: http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu, http://mesa.ucdavis.edu

 

Selected Publications

 

    * General Editor, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volumes I-VI, Leiden, Brill, 2003-2007.

    * Editor, Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (NY: Syracuse University Press), 2000.

    * Editor, Intimate Selving in Arab Families (NY: Syracuse University Press), 1999.

    * Co-Editor, Gender and Citizenship in Lebanon (Beirut: Al-Jadid), 1999.

    * Co-Editor, Women and Power in the Middle East (PA: University of Pennsylvania Press), 2001.

Ray Jureidini

Director, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo

 

Ray Jureidini is Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Ray has previously held the position of associate professor and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the American University of Beirut and has taught in several Australian universities. His research interests lie in the fields of industrial sociology (producer cooperatives and industrial restructuring in Australia), economic sociology (life insurance, pension funds, gift relationships and international aid), migration, human rights, racism, and xenophobia. His current research looks at temporary labor migration and concepts of ‘unfree’ or ‘slavery-like’ migrant labor and human trafficking, with particular focus on female migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and the Middle East. He is currently involved in a number of research projects including: child domestic workers in Egypt, remittance investment of Egyptian migrants abroad, livelihoods of Sudanese refugees in Cairo and trajectories of Somali refugees in the region.

                                               

Research Project: Post-Crisis Household Division of Labour in Lebanon

 

Selected Publications

 

    * State and Non-State Actors During the Conflict in Lebanon, July-August 2006 in Khalid Koser and Susan Martin (eds.) The Migration-Displacement Nexus: Concepts, Cases and Responses, Berghahan Books, 2009.

    * Irregular Workers in Egypt: migrant and refugee domestic workers in International Journal for Multicultural Societies, 2009.

    * Sexuality and the Servant: An Exploration of Arab Images of the Sexuality of Domestic Maids in the Household in Sexuality in the Arab World ed. S. Khalaf and J. Gangnon, Saqi Press, 2006.

    * Migrant Workers and Xenophobia in the Middle East, in Y. Bangura and R. Stavenhagen (eds.) Racism and Public Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 48-71, 2005.

    * Human Rights and Foreign Contract Labour: Some Implications for Management and Regulation in Arab Countries in Arab Migration in a Globalized World, International Organization for Migration, Geneva, pp. 201-216, 2005.

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.

Eileen Kuttab

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Institute of Women Studies, Birzeit University, Palestine

 

Eileen Kuttab is an assistant professor in sociology and a faculty member and researcher at Institute of Women studies at Birzeit University in Palestine. She is a founding member of the Institute and has been the director of the Institute of Women’s Studies from 1998 until August 2008. As a woman activist, she has been involved with grassroots women’s organizations and has served on boards of trustees of human rights and development research centers. Eileen is a founding member of Bisan Center for Research and Development in Ramallah since 1989 and her recent active involvement is promoting the concept of alternative development as a realistic approach to development under colonial occupation. Her main research interests focus on the relation of feminism to nationalism, social movements and in particular the women’s movement, gender and development particularly women’s work in the informal sector and coping strategies, and tools for community empowerment through community based organizations.

 

Research Project: Palestinian Youth: Construction of Desires and Imaginaries in Different Social Contexts

 

Selected Publications

 

    * Coping with Conflict: Palestinian Families and Households, against all Odds, University of San Martin of Argentina. Forthcoming

    * Palestinian Women’s Organizations: Global Cooption and Local Contradiction, Cultural Dynamics, 20(2):99-117, 2008.

    * Arab Human Development Report, Social Protection in the Arab World, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Regional Bureau of Arab States. Kuttab, E. Contributing Author. New York, August 2009.

    * Arab Human Development Report, 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Regional Bureau of Arab States, Contributing Author, New York, 2006.

    * The Paradox of Women’s Work: Coping, Crisis, and Family Survival Ed. Taraki L. In Living Palestine, Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation. Syracuse University Press, 2006.

Jihad Makhoul

Associate Professor, & Chair, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, American University of Beirut

 

Jihad Makhoul currently holds the position of associate professor and chair at the Department of Health Behavior and Education, Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She finished her doctorate in Public Health from the University of Wollongong in Australia. Jihad has conducted research in Lebanon on the influence of internal displacement on families in Beirut, structural determinants of health especially in urban contexts of Beirut, as well as the conditions of young persons in postwar conditions.

 

Research Projects: Displaced Arab Families: Coping and Changes in post-war Beirut, Displaced Arab Families Coping and Changes: Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon

 

Links: http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~jm04, http://fhs.aub.edu.lb/

 

Selected Publications

 

    * Obtaining informed consent: observations from community research with refugee and impoverished youth, In Medical Ethics, 2009.

    * Displaced Arab Families: mothers’ voices on living and coping in post-war Beirut, In Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies, 2009.

    * Violence: the Silent Determinant of Child Labor, Journal of Children and Poverty, 2004.

    * An Ethnographic Study of the Consequences of Social and Structural Forces on Children: The Case of Two Low Income Beirut Suburbs, in Environment and Urbanization, 2003.

    * A Structural Perspective on Poverty and Health Inequalities in Lebanon, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 2003.

Annelies Moors

Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

 

Annelies Moors studied Arabic at the University of Damascus and anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. From the early 1980s on, she has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Palestine (Nablus); later she also did fieldwork in Yemen (San‘a) and elsewhere in the Arab world. From 2001-2008 she was the Amsterdam University chair at ISIM (Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World). Currently she is professor of contemporary Muslim societies at the University of Amsterdam where she directs the research programme on Muslim cultural politics at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research. Participants in this programme work on fashion, artistic performances, music, and mosque design; Muslim family law and everyday life; and the cultural politics of migrant domestic labor.

 

Research Project: Marriages and Movements: Weddings and Wars

 

Links: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.c.a.e.moors/

 

Selected Publications

 

    * Women, Property, and Islam: Palestinian Experiences 1920-1990, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

    * Co-editor of Discourse and Palestine, Het Spinhuis, 1995

    * Guest editor of a special issue of Islamic Law and Society, 2003.

    * Guest editor of a special issue of Fashion Theory, on Muslim Fashions (with Emma Tarlo), 2007.

    * Truth in Islamic Law, Co-editor of Narratives, IB Taurus, 2008.

 

Nadine Naber

Assistant Professor, Program in American Culture and the Department of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

 

Nadine Naber is an Assistant Professor in the Program in American Culture and the Department of Women’s Studies and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Davis. Her research and teaching focus on Arab American Studies; Women of Color and Transnational Feminisms; Race and Ethnicity; and Colonialism and Post-Colonial Theory. She is co-founder of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association, North America (cyber AWSA); Arab Movement of Women arising for Justice (AMWAJ) and Arab Women’s Activist Network (AWAN) and a former board member of Incite! Women of Color against Violence; Racial Justice 9-11; and the Women of Color Resource Center.

 

Research Project: The Transnational Circulation of Families in a Time of War: Lebanese Border Crossings Between Lebanon and Michigan

 

Links: http://141.211.177.75/ac/ac_detail/0,2416,13694%255Fpeople%255F81810,00....,

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Selected Publications

 

    * Race and Arab Americans before and after September 11th, (Co-edited with Amaney Jamal). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press

    * Transnational Families Under Siege: Diasporic Engagements with the 2006 War on Lebanon, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. 5(2), 2009.

    * The Rules of Forced Engagement: Gendered Inscriptions of Terrorism on Arab Muslim Bodies, Journal of Cultural Dynamics. 18(3): 235-267, 2006.

    * Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/American(ized) Whore, Journal of Feminist Studies. 32(1): 87-111; Reprinted in Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (Oxford University Press); Reprinted in Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (Forthcoming, Routledge), 2006.

    * Ambiguous Insiders, An Investigation of Arab American Invisibility, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. 23(1): 37-61, 2000.

 

Martina Rieker

Director, Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, American University in Cairo

 

Martina Rieker is the Director of the Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at the American University in Cairo. Previously she served as the associate dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo. Before that, she served as associate director of the Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies (AUC) during 2001-2005. She is co-coordinator of the Shehr Comparative Urban Landscapes in the Middle East and South Asia Network and co-coordinator of the (Re) Construction of War Torn Communities in the Middle East and Africa Working Group.

 

Research Project: Collecting Data, Constructing Desire: The Girl Child as Problem Space

 

Links: www.shehr.org, www.aucegypt.edu/rwcmea, www.aucegypt.edu/igws

Zeina Zaatari

Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa Program, Global Fund for Women, San Francisco

 

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.

 

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