Contributors
- Contributors
Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud is Assistant Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and Geography at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. She is a Palestinian writer and professor from Mi'ilya village in the Western Galilee of northern Israel. She has taught at Harvey Mudd College, Pomona College, and Georgetown University. Daoud has authored numerous articles and opinion pieces in Arabic, Hebrew, and English and has published four volumes of Arabic poetry and literature. Since 2006 she has been frequently published in the prestigious literature magazine al-Adab0 (Beirut). In 2005, she was commissioned to write original poetry for the Washington, DC Shakespeare Theater Company's March 2005 presentation of The Tempest; she also translated sections of the play from English to Arabic. Her book Palestinian Women and Politics in Israel was published by University Press of Florida in 2009. Daoud holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Suad Joseph is Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis and founding Director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program. She also served as President of the Middle East Studies Association and serves as Associate Editor and co-founder of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. Joseph's research focuses on her native Lebanon and examines the politicization of religion; women in local communities; women, family and state; and questions of self, citizenship, and rights. She is founder and facilitator of the Arab Families Working Group, founder of the Association [End Page 123] for Middle East Women's Studies, and founder and facilitator for the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo, the Lebanese American University, the University of California and Bir Zeit University Collaborative Initiative. Joseph is General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Her edited books include Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (Syracuse University Press, 2000) and Intimate Selving in Arab Families (Syracuse University Press, 1999). Her co-edited books include Women and Power in the Middle East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001) and Building Citizenship in Lebanon (Lebanese American University, 1999). She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University.
Sara Pursley is a doctoral student in Middle East history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation, titled "Race against Time: Governing Femininity and Reproducing the Future in Revolutionary Iraq, 1945-63," looks at family and gender reform in Iraq in relation to secular and Islamic pedagogies of self-formation and to new productions of time and space in the global "age of development." Sara is also the managing editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Rania Kassab Sweis holds the Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University. She is a medical anthropologist who specializes in gender and transnational processes. Broadly, Sweis's research lies at the intersection of the politics of humanitarianism and the social production of childhood and youth in contemporary Egypt. Her doctoral dissertation traces biomedical interventions performed by workers of European and U.S.-based non-governmental organizations on behalf of young people defined as "poor" and "at-risk" in Egypt. Sweis was a Junior Fellow in the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences and has conducted ethnographic research in Egypt, France, Lebanon, and a Muslim-American community in the United States. Sweis earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University, where she was a Fellow at the Research Institute for Critical Studies in Race and Ethnicity and a Fellow at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. [End Page 124]
