Contact
Secondary Phone: +-1-401-863-2096
Department of Anthropology, Brown University
Hope Street 128
Box 1921
Providence
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02912
United States
ABOUT
Nadje Al-Ali is Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at Brown University with a joint position in the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs and the anthropology department. Her main research interests and publications revolve around feminist activism in the Middle East; transnational migration and diaspora mobilization; war, conflict and reconstruction; art & cultural studies and food. Her publications include Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed Books); What kind of liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (2009, with Nicola Pratt, University of California Press) and Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian women’s movement (2000, CUP). Her co-edited book with Deborah al-Najjar entitled We are Iraqis: Aesthetics & Politics in a Time of War (Syracuse University Press) won the 2014 Arab-American book prize for non-fiction. Her more recent research and publications focus on the Turkish-Kurdish conflict and the Kurdish women’s movement. She is on the advisory board of Kohl: a journal of body and gender research.
Professor Al-Ali was President of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) from 2009-2011 and was also elected to the Board of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). She has been involved in several feminist organizations and campaigns, including being a founding member of Act Together: Women’s Action for Iraq.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Conflict Resolution
Cultural Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Iraq
Lebanon
Turkey
Specialties
Impact Of War, Occupation & Violence On Women
Transnational Migration
Women & Gender In ME
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
English (advanced)
French (advanced)
German (native)
Education
PhD
| 1998
| SOAS
| U of London
MA
| 1993
| Anthro & Socio
| AUC
BA
| 1989
| MES
| U of Arizona
Abstracts
Transnational Feminism in the Context of Iraq & Palestine
The Iraqi Women's Movement Under Occupation
Iraqi Women’s Agency: Contesting Modernities & Traditions
Feminist Activism in MENA: Iraq and Egypt in Focus
Rethinking gender-based violence in Iraq
Women's Rights and Political Participation in Iraq
Critiquing U.S. centrism
