Nadia Hijab (, ), is a Palestinian political analyst, author, and journalist who comments frequently on human rights and the Middle East, and the situation of the Palestinians in particular.
Biography
Hijab was born in Aleppo, Syria to Palestinian Arab parents, Wasfi Hijab and Abla Nashif, but grew up in neighboring Lebanon, where she earned a BA and MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. During her years of study in Beirut, Hijab worked as a journalist, but she left Lebanon after the onset of the Lebanese Civil War. She traveled first to Qatar, and then to London, England, where she became the editor-in-chief of Middle East Magazine and appeared frequently in the media as a commentator on Middle East affairs.
In 1989, Hijab moved to the United States, where she worked for 10 years in New York City as a development specialist for the United Nations Development Programme. In 2000, she founded a consultancy firm, which she still heads.
In 2010, she co-founded Al-Shabaka, a virtual think tank bringing together close to 60 Palestinian thinkers and writers from all over the world. She is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies.
Books
Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work, Cambridge U.P., 1988
Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel, co-authored with Amina Minns, I.B. Tauris 1990
References
External links
Profile of Nadia Hijab at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
Nadia Hijab at the Council on Foreign Relations
Columbia University – Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program Team Members
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American University of Beirut alumni Syrian emigrants to the United States Palestinian women writers Women social scientists 21st-century Palestinian women writers 21st-century Palestinian writers Palestinian political scientists Lebanese people of Palestinian descent Syrian people of Palestinian descent Women political scientists