Member Profile
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Jad Islah
Country of origin: Palestine Currently in: Palestine, Ramallah General field of specialization: Social and Economic Sciences-
Degrees
2004 Doctorate Social and Economic Sciences1979 Doctorate Social and Economic Sciences -
Current Research Activities
Other
Marriage and Divorce in the Arab Region. Palestinian women activism. Gender and Development in the Arab Region.
Publications resulting from Research:
• Jad, Islah (2019) Gender in a Fragmented non-Sovereignty in (ed.) Deniz Kandiyoti, Women, Islam and the State Revisited. Edinburgh University Press.
• Jad, Islah (2018) Author of Palestinian Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism, Syracuse University Press.
• Jad, Islah (Forthcoming) Family Ties: Pathways to Political Office? In (ed.) Suad Joseph, Syracuse University Press.
• Jad, Islah (2018) “Arab Family Studies, Palestine: 1930-2013”, in (ed.) Suad Joseph, Doha International Family Institute. Qatar.
• Jad, Islah (2018) “Modernizing Palestinian Women: Between Colonialism and Nationalism – Reflections on the 19’60s and the 19’70s, in Martin Klimke (et.al) (ed.) Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties. Routledge.
• Jad, Islah (2014) Between Religion and Secularism: Islamist Women of Hamas, in (ed.) Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone, On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era, The Feminist Press, The City University of New York. NY
• Jad, Islah (2014) “Local Power and Women’s Empowerment in a Conflict Context: Palestinian Women Contesting Power in Chaos”, in (ed.) Mariz Tadrus , Women in Politics: Gender, Power and Development, Zed Books, London.
• Jad, Islah (2014) Women at the Crossroads: The Palestinian Women's Movement between Nationalism, Secularism and Islamism, Dar al Farabi, Beirut. Second Edition and updated version in Arabic.
• Islah, Jad (2013) “The Debate on Islamism and Secularism”, in (eds.) Rochelle Davis and Mimi Kirk, Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century, Indiana University Press.
• Jad, Islah (2012) "النسوية بين العلمانية والاسلامية: حالة فلسطين (الضفة الغربية وغزة)"، في سعيد المقدسي، جين و صيداوي رضا رفيف و بيومي نهى، النسوية العربية رؤية نقدية، مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية وتجمع الباحثات اللينانيات، بيروت.
• Jad, Islah (2011) “Islam and Feminism: Response to Hania Sholkami”, Contestation: Dialogues on Women’s Empowerment, Issue No. 1, Posted by Contestations / Dialogues on Women’s Empowerment on January 26, 2011 at 12:44 pm, http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-1/issue-1-response-2/
• Jad, Islah (2011) Jad, Islah (2011) Islamism and Secularism: Between State Instrumentalisation and Opposition Islamic Movements, IDS Bulletin, Institute of Development Studies, Vol. 42, No. 1: 40-46
• Jad, Islah (2011) “Gender, Youth and Institutional Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”, in (eds) Ennaji, Moha and Sadiqi, Fatima, Gender and Violence in the Middle East, Routledge, London& New York.
• Jad, Islah (2011) “The Post Oslo Palestine and Gendering Palestinian Citizenship”, Ethnicities, Volume 11 Number 3. September 2011: 360-373
• Jad, Islah (2010) “Palestinian Women Contesting Power in Chaos”, IDS Bulletin, Vol. 41, Issue No. 5. Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Sussex University. UK.
• Islah Jad (2010) “The Demobilization of a Palestinian Women’s Movement: From Empowered Active Militants to Powerless and Stateless “Citizens””, in (ed.) Amrita Basu, Women’s Movements in the Global Era: The Power oLocal Feminisms, Westview Press, Colorado: 343-375
Current profession
Current professional activities type:TeachingTeaching Ph.D, MA courses on gender and development issues and BA courses in Cultural Studies.
Workshop and Conference Attended
I attended many conferences and workshopsAffiliations
2017 – Now Member of the Selection Committee for the Arab Council for Social Sciences’ Postdoc AwardArab Family Working Group -
Other Awards
Nov 2024included in the C.V