Nadia Hijab
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Nadia Hijab (
Arabic: نادية حجاب, romanized: Nādya ḥijāb, [naːdja ħidʒaːb]), is a Palestinian political analyst,[1] 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,
English Literature from the American University of Beirut.[3] 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[4] and appeared frequently in the media as a commentator on Middle East affairs.[5]
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.[citation needed]
In 2010, she co-founded Al-Shabaka,[6][7] a virtual think tank bringing together close to 60 Palestinian thinkers and writers from all over the world. She is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies.[8]
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
- ISBN 978-1608461141.
- ISBN 978-0521269926.
- ISBN 9780720119572.
- ISBN 978-8172110888.
- ^ "Nadia Hijab: Analyst and author". Institute for Middle East Understanding. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
- ^ 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. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
- ^ "Nadia Hijab". Institute for Palestine Studies. 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
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