Islah Jad
Palestinian academic
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- Bachelors Sociology Birzeit University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Islah Jad is a tenured assistant professor of Gender and Development at Birzeit University. She is also the co-founder and current Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit and a Core Group Member of the Arab Families Working Group. A prominent figure in the Palestinian women’s movement, Jad also helped to establish the Women’s Affair Centre in Gaza and Nablus, Les Amies du Francis, the Child Corner project in el-Bireh, and the WATC . Jad carried out Gender Consultancy for the United Nations Development Programme and was a co-author of the United Nation’s Arab Human Development Report of 2005. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Cairo University, a master's degree in political theory from the University of Nantes, and a Ph.D. in gender and development studies from the University of London.
Islah Jad's Published Works
Published Works
- NGOs: between buzzwords and social movements (2007) (183)
- The NGO-isation of Arab Women's Movements (2004) (120)
- The ‘NGOization’ of the Arab Women’s Movements (1970) (42)
- For the Common Good? Gender and Social Citizenship in Palestine (1996) (23)
- Palestinian Women’s Activism (2018) (17)
- Islamist women of Hamas: between feminism and nationalism (2011) (15)
- The post-Oslo Palestine and gendering Palestinian citizenship (2011) (15)
- The Politics of Group Weddings in Palestine: Political and Gender Tensions (2009) (12)
- Claiming Feminism, Claiming Nationalism: Women's Activism in the Occupied Territories (1995) (12)
- Palestinian Women Contesting Power in Chaos (2010) (12)
- Local Feminism: Between Islamism and Liberal Universalism (2009) (11)
- Rereading the British Mandate in Palestine: Gender and the Urban–Rural Divide in Education (2007) (6)
- Modernizing palestinian women: Between colonialism and nationalism-reflections on the 1960s and 1970s (2018) (5)
- Islamist Women of Hamas : Between Feminism and Nationalism (2010) (5)
- Islamism and Secularism: Between State Instrumentalisation and Opposition Islamic Movements (2011) (2)
- The conundrums of post-Oslo Palestine: Gendering Palestinian citizenship (2010) (2)
- The Palestinian Women’s Movement (2018) (1)
- Dedication (2015) (0)
- Mainstreaming Gender in Urban Development Activity Description and Synthesis (2003) (0)
- Katz: Women and Gender in Early Jewish and Palestinian Nationalism (2004) (0)
- Identity (Nissaa ala taqato Attoroq: Al-Harakaat Al-Niswiya Al-Falastiniya (2010) (0)
- The Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Anti-Racism Controversy Revisited—Controversially? (2020) (0)
- COMMENTS FROM AN AUTHOR: ENGAGING THE ARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2005 ON WOMEN (2009) (0)
- From the West Bank: Letters and Acts of Resistance (2015) (0)
- Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers , edited by Azza Karam. (Handbook Series #2) 198 pages, annexes, indexes, poster. Stockholm: Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), 1998. ISBN 91-89098-19-6 (1999) (0)
- Review: At the Doors of Paradise: Discourses of Female Self-Sacrifice, Martyrdom and Resistance in Palestine , by Lisa Maria Franke (2016) (0)
- Modernizing Palestinian women (2018) (0)
- Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp (2006) (0)
- Fleischmann: The Nation and Its ““New”” Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920––1948 (2004) (0)
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