Other Memberships/Affiliations
2017 – Now Member of the Selection Committee for the Arab Council for Social Sciences’ Postdoc Award
Arab Family Working Group
Degrees:
2004
Doctorate Social and Economic Sciences
Doctorate in Gender and Development Studies. Please note that my name is differnet on my Ph.d certificate than my known name.
1979
Doctorate Social and Economic Sciences
MA in political sciences, University of Paris X Nanterre. Paris
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
• 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
I attended many conferences and workshops
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