Nadia Hijab
Institute for Palestine Studies
Host: Basima Farhat
Previously Aired On: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 – Listen to the Show!
Nadia Hijab is Senior Fellow at the DC-based office of the Institute for Palestine Studies, and co-director of its Washington, D.C. office. The Institute is an independent non-profit research organization whose flagship Journal of Palestine Studies, co-published with the University of California Press, is a leading resource on the Israeli-Arab conflict (www.palestine-studies.org).
Hijab is a frequent commentator on the media, including BBC World, and has appeared on the Lehrer Newshour. Hijab’s first book, Womanpower: The Arab debate on women at work (1988) was published by Cambridge University Press. She co-authored Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel (I. B. Tauris 1990).
She was Editor-in-Chief of the London-based Middle East magazine before moving to New York in 1989 to join the United Nations, where she served as a senior development officer. She resigned from the UN in 2000 to establish her own consulting business, Development Analysis and Communication Services (DACS), on human rights, human development, and gender. She has served as co-chair of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and is a past president of the Association of Arab American University Graduates.
