Name

Subject at Birzeit University

Year(s)

Adania Shibli, Author and essayist. Her latest is the novel Tafsil Thanawi (Al-Adab, 2017, translated as Minor Detail, Fitzcarraldo Edition/UK, and New Directions/USA, 2020), which was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2020, and in 2021 it was nominated for the International Booker Prize.

Formations of Self Representations: A Visual Culture and Women’s Studies Approach/ MA Level Course (GADS 638).

2nd semester

2012-2013

Salwa Masad, Research Manager,  WHO Palestinian National Institute of Public Health, Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University

Quantitative Research Methods for Gender & Development (GADS633)

1st semester 2011-2012

Rosemary Sayigh, Anthropologist/oral historian residing in Beirut

Oral histories of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

2006

Phyllis Bennis, Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, Fellow, in  New Internationalism: Middle East and UN Affairs; co-chair, US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation

Current US policy on Israel/Palestine

 

2005

 

John Cameron, Professor and Graduate Program Director at the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University- Canada

Development

2005

Annelies Moors, She held the chair for contemporary Muslim societies at the department of anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Currently she is professor emerita at the University of Amsterdam.

Gender and Law

 

2005 

 

Jennifer Olmsted, Professor of Economics, Director of Middle East Studies and founding Director of Drew University’s Social Entrepreneurship program.

Elderly in the Middle East

 

2005

Lynn Welchman, Professor of Law at the University of London, lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

  Gender and constitutional law; family   law in shari’a and in law

2005

(also in 2000)

Susan Akram,  Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law.

“Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Law”

Refugee law; international refugee advocacy

 

2004

 

Ann Stewart, Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK

“Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Law”

Gender and law; law and development

2004

(also in 2000)

(Gloria A.) Gay Young, Prof Emerita, American University, Washington, D.C.

Gender and social change

“Gender and Development”

2003

(also in 2000)

Amr Shalakany, Associate professor of Law, and founding director of the Law and Society Research Unit at The American University in Cairo (AUC).

 

Seminar “Gender and Law in the Arab World”

2002

Deniz Kandiyoti, is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London

 Gender and development

2000