Nadia Hijab

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.

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

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.

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.

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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