Nadia Hijab

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Nadia Hijab
Born
Aleppo, Syria
NationalityPalestinian
EducationAmerican University of Beirut
OccupationWriter, political analyst

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, Syria to Palestinian Arab parents,[2] 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.[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 as a development specialist for the United Nations Development Programme in New York City. In 2000, she founded a consultancy firm, which she still heads.[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.[citation needed]

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[]

  1. ^ Barghouti, Omar (2011). BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions : the Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Haymarket Books. p. 276. ISBN 978-1608461141.
  2. ^ Hijab, Nadia (1988). Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work. Cambridge University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0521269926.
  3. ^ Sharabi, Hisham (1988). The Next Arab decade: alternative futures. Westview Press. p. 330. ISBN 9780720119572.
  4. ^ Ansari, Shahid Jamal (1998). Political Modernization in the Gulf. Northern Book Centre. p. 81. ISBN 978-8172110888.
  5. ^ "Nadia Hijab: Analyst and author". Institute for Middle East Understanding. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  6. ^ Hijab, Nadia (October 17, 2014). "Recognition's Diplomatic Leverage Could Strengthen Palestinian Right". The New York Times. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  7. ^ "Uprisings in the Middle East: A New Arab World Order". The Jerusalem Fund. Retrieved November 3, 2014.

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