Islah Jad
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Islah Jad (born 1951) is a tenured assistant professor of Gender and Development at Birzeit University. She is also the co-founder and current Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit and a Core Group Member of the Arab Families Working Group. A prominent figure in the Palestinian women’s movement,{{Cite web |url=http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/islah-jad/person_view |title=Islah Jad — SSRC |access-date=2011-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321112320/http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/islah-jad/person_view |archive-date=2012-03-21 |url-status=dead }} Jad also helped to establish the Women’s Affair Centre in Gaza and Nablus, Les Amies du Francis, the Child Corner project in el-Bireh, and the WATC (Women’s Affairs Technical Committee).{{Cite web | url=http://pathwaysmiddleeast.wordpress.com/about/islah-jad/ |title = Islah Jad|date = 2009-03-02}} Jad carried out Gender Consultancy for the United Nations Development Programme and was a co-author of the United Nation’s Arab Human Development Report of 2005. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Cairo University, a master's degree in political theory from the University of Nantes, and a Ph.D. in gender and development studies from the University of London.{{fact|date=November 2023}}
WATC was established in 1992 in Ramallah, West Bank.{{Cite web|url=https://www.annalindhfoundation.org/members/womens-affairs-technical-committee-watc|title=Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC)|website=www.annalindhfoundation.org}}
Selected publications
- Jad, Islah. 2005. “Islamist Women of Hamas: A New Women’s Movement?” In On Shifting Ground; Muslim Women in a Global Era, edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone. New York: The Feminist Press.
- UNDP. Jad, Islah (core team member) and others. 2006. Arab Human Development Report, 2005: Women’s Empowerment. New York: UNDP.
- Jad, Islah. 2005–2006. “Letters from Ramallah.” Bahithat 11: 206–226.
- −−−. {{Cite journal | title = Re-reading the British mandate in Palestine: gender and the urban rural divide through health care and education | journal = International Journal of Middle East Studies | volume = 39 | issue = 3 | pages = 338–342 | doi = 10.1017/S002074380707047X | date = August 2007 | last1 = Jad | first1 = Islah | s2cid = 161308092 }}
- −−−. {{Cite journal | title = NGOs: Between buzzwords and social movements | journal = Development in Practice | volume = 17 | issue = 4–5 | pages = 622–629 | doi = 10.1080/09614520701469781 | date = August 2007 | last1 = Jad | first1 = Islah | s2cid = 144027087 }}
- −−−. {{cite thesis |type=Ph.D. |date= 2008 |title=Women at the cross-roads: the Palestinian women's movement between nationalism, secularism and Islamism |publisher= SOAS, University of London |url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413154 }}
- −−−. {{Citation | contribution = Women and public life | editor-last = PCBS | editor-link = Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | title = Men and Women Report | publisher = Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) | language = ar | location = Ramallah, Palestine | date = 2008 | url = http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book1542.pdf | postscript = .}}
- −−−. {{Cite journal | title = The politics of group weddings in Palestine: political and gender tensions | journal = Journal of Middle East Women's Studies | volume = 5 | issue = 3 | pages = 36–53 | doi = 10.2979/mew.2009.5.3.36 | jstor = 10.2979/mew.2009.5.3.36 | date = Fall 2009 | last1 = Jad | first1 = Islah | s2cid = 145529800 }}
- −−−. {{Citation | contribution = Reflections on the Arab Human Development Report on the empowerment of women in the Arab world | editor-last = Al–Ali | editor-first = Feryal | title = Arab women: future perspectives | publisher = Arab Thought Forum | language = ar | location = Amman, Jordan | date = 2010 | url = http://www.multaqa.org/ | postscript = .}}
- −−−. {{Citation | contribution = Islamic Jihad | editor-last = Rubenberg | editor-first = Cheryl A. | title = Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | publisher = Lynne Rienner Publishers | location = Boulder, Colorado | date = 2010 | isbn = 9781588266866 | postscript = .}}
- −−−. {{Cite journal | title = The conundrums of post-Oslo Palestine: gendering Palestinian citizenship | journal = Feminist Theory | volume = 11 | issue = 2 | pages = 149–169 | doi = 10.1177/1464700110366809 | date = August 2010 | last1 = Jad | first1 = Islah | s2cid = 143673217 }}
- −−−. {{Cite journal | title = Islamist women of Hamas: between feminism and nationalism | journal = Inter-Asia Cultural Studies | volume = 12 | issue = 2 | pages = 176–201 | doi = 10.1080/14649373.2011.554647 | date = June 2011 | last1 = Jad | first1 = Islah | s2cid = 144924736 }}
- Jad, Islah. 2020. "[https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/d67b9342/bi-brief-063020-cme-palestine-jad.pdf NGOs: Between Buzzwords and Social Movements]." In Women's Grassroots Mobilization in the MENA Region Post-2011 (Kelsey Norman, ed.).Baker Institute (Houston, TX). 28 June 2020.
https://doi.org/10.25613/j0tx-w723 {{Cite journal|date=2020-06-28|title=MENA: Women's Grassroots Mobilization|url=https://bakerinstitute.org/research/womens-grassroots-mobilization-mena-region-post-2011/|access-date=2021-01-17|website=bakerinstitute.org|language=en-US|doi=10.25613/j0tx-w723|last1=Norman|first1=Kelsey P.}}
See also
References
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External links
- Feature in Media Monitors Network: http://www.mediamonitors.net/islahjad1.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305063256/http://www.mediamonitors.net/islahjad1.html |date=2016-03-05 }}
- Interview with the Monthly Review: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2009/jones180109.html
- Feature in Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/2008/04/28/our-dreams-are-dead.html
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