| Nadia Hijab | |
|---|---|
| Born | Aleppo, Syria |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Education | American University of Beirut |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, political analyst |
Nadia Hijab (Arabic: نادية حجاب, romanized: Nādya ḥijāb, [naːdja ħidʒaːb]) is a Palestinian political analyst, author, and journalist who comments frequently on human rights and the Middle East, and the situation of the Palestinians in particular.
Biography
Hijab was born in Aleppo, Syria to Palestinian Arab parents, Wasfi Hijab and Abla Nashif, but grew up in neighboring Lebanon, where she earned a BA and MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. During her years of study in Beirut, Hijab worked as a journalist, but she left Lebanon after the onset of the Lebanese Civil War. She traveled first to Qatar, and then to London, England, where she became the editor-in-chief of Middle East Magazine and appeared frequently in the media as a commentator on Middle East affairs.
In 1989, Hijab moved to the United States, where she worked for 10 years in New York City as a development specialist for the United Nations Development Programme.
In 2010, she co-founded Al-Shabaka, a virtual think tank bringing together over 200 Palestinian thinkers and writers from all over the world. She was a member of the board of trustees at the Institute for Palestine Studies.
Books
- Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work, Cambridge U.P., 1988
- Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel, co-authored with Amina Minns, I.B. Tauris 1990
References
- Barghouti, Omar (2011). BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions : the Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Haymarket Books. p. 276. ISBN 978-1608461141.
- Hijab, Nadia (1988). Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work. Cambridge University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0521269926.
- Sharabi, Hisham (1988). The Next Arab decade: alternative futures. Westview Press. p. 330. ISBN 9780720119572.
- Ansari, Shahid Jamal (1998). Political Modernization in the Gulf. Northern Book Centre. p. 81. ISBN 978-8172110888.
- ^ "Nadia Hijab: Analyst and author". Institute for Middle East Understanding. December 31, 2006. Archived from the original on November 3, 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
- "Nadia Hijab". Al-Shabaka. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- Hijab, Nadia (October 17, 2014). "Recognition's Diplomatic Leverage Could Strengthen Palestinian Right". The New York Times. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
- "Uprisings in the Middle East: A New Arab World Order". The Jerusalem Fund. Archived from the original on November 3, 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
- "About Al-Shabaka". Al-Shabaka. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- "Nadia Hijab". Institute for Palestine Studies. Archived from the original on July 31, 2021. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
External links
- Profile of Nadia Hijab at the Institute for Middle East Understanding Archived April 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- Nadia Hijab at the Council on Foreign Relations Archived April 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- Columbia University – Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program Team Members Archived April 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- Living people
- American University of Beirut alumni
- Syrian emigrants to the United States
- Palestinian women journalists
- 21st-century Palestinian journalists
- Women social scientists
- 21st-century Palestinian women writers
- 21st-century Palestinian writers
- Palestinian political scientists
- Lebanese people of Palestinian descent
- Syrian people of Palestinian descent
- Women political scientists