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ABOUT
Zeina is the Director of the Arab American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Previously she was Research Director at Political Research Associates, an organization that studies the US Right to support social justice organizing, Regional Program Director for MENA at the Global Fund for Women, and various teaching and research positions. Zeina earned her PhD in Cultural Anthropology with an emphasis in Feminist Theory from the University of California at Davis. She serves as the Associate Editor for the Middle East and Africa for the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. She is a trainer and mentor for The Muslim Women in the Media Training Institute. She is a co-founder and member of the Training to Engaged Research Group that provides training and mentorship to faculty and students in national universities in the Arab region on research project design and analysis. For publications check https://independent.academia.edu/ZeinaZaatari.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Human Rights
Middle East/Near East Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Lebanon
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Intersection Of Class, Gender & Rel
Subjectivity, Women And Gender
Sexuality (masculinity And Femininity), Heteronorm
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (intermediate)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2003
| Anthro
| UC Davis
Abstracts
Interrogating Lebanese Heteronormativity: Family, Adulthood, and Citizenship
