Contributors
- Contributors
Lamis Abu Nahleh is an Assistant Professor at Birzeit University. She has conducted research on Palestinian society in the areas of gender, education, and vocational education; the family and the household; gender case studies on the Palestinian Ministry of Youth and Sports; women's microcredit projects; community-based rehabilitation programs; gender integration into industrial schools; empowerment in the Palestinian context; "honor killing" in Palestine; and other topics. Her publications include "A Gender Analysis of Microcredit Programs in Palestine," in Review of Women's Studies (2003, in Arabic), "Employment: Contract for Daughters and Daughters-in-Law," in Inside Palestinian Households: An Initial Analysis of a Community-Based Survey of Palestinian Households, ed. Rita Giacaman and Penny Johnson (2002), and Gender Planning, Vocational Education, and Technical Training (VETT) in Palestine (1996, in Arabic and English).
Mary Ghanem received the degree of Master in Public Health from the American University of Beirut in 2002. She has worked for several years as a Research Assistant and Health Behavior and Education Consultant at AUB on several health-related projects, most of which involved the use of qualitative research methodology, targeting female youths and their mothers to assess their health status and how it impacts their daily lives, among other projects. Other thematic areas of interest include smoking cessation and prevention as well as the child-to-child approach to health education. She is currently the managing director of a recruitment company in Lebanon. [End Page 198]
Islah Jad is Director of the Institute of Women's Studies and Assistant Professor of Gender and Development at Birzeit University. She is one of the founders of the Institute of Women's Studies, and also a founder of the Women's Affairs Technical Committee, a national coalition for women. She has published many works on Palestinian and Arab women's political participation. She is a co-author of the Arab Human Development Report of 2005.
Penny Johnson is an independent researcher and Research Associate at the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University, where she is co-editor of the Institute's Review of Women's Studies. She is also an associate editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly. Her recent publications include "Violence All Around Us: Dilemmas of Global and Local Agendas Addressing Violence Against Palestinian Women: An Initial Intervention" (Cultural Dynamics, July 2008), and "Tales of Strength and Danger: Sahar and the Tactics of Everyday Life in Amari Refugee Camp, Palestine" (Signs, Spring 2007). She also contributed a chapter to Living Palestine, ed. Lisa Taraki (2006), a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of Women's Studies.
Suad Joseph is Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis, where she is the founding Director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program. She has also served as Director of Women and Gender Studies. She received the UC-Davis Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award in 2004. She founded the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS); the Arab Families Working Group; and the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology, which evolved into the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association. She also founded the Consortium of the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo, the Lebanese American University, UC-Davis, and Birzeit University. Her research focuses on family, gender, citizenship, and youth in the Middle East, primarily in her native Lebanon. She is the general editor of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Brill, 2003-2008), the first of its kind. She has edited and co-edited seven books and published around 100 articles, book chapters, and targeted-circulation research contributions. [End Page 199]
Ray Jureidini is Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo. His research interests lie in the fields of industrial and economic sociology, migration, human rights, racism, and xenophobia. His current research looks at temporary labor migration and concepts of "unfree" or "slavery-like" migrant labor and human trafficking, with particular focus on female migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and the Middle East. He is active on behalf of human rights, working against anti-Arab vilification in Australia and anti-Asian and...
