On 29 April 2015, the Institute of Women’s Studies organized, in cooperation with the PhD program in Social Sciences at Birzeit University, a workshop on the intersectionality between gender, race, class and the colonial case. Dr. Nadine Naber, associate professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Chicago, stressed that we cannot understand power and repression in relation to these structures separately, as there must be in-depth research on the way these structures intersect to produce women’s life experiences. Dr. Naber said that the intersection between power forms are reflected and influenced by knowledge and discourse, in addition to the institutions and physical practices that influence women’s self and identity formation.

Dr. Lena Meari, assistant professor of anthropology and faculty member in the Institute of Women's Studies, emphasized the importance of this workshop as it offers the conceptual and methodological framework to address the issue of intersectionality between power forces, contributing to the debate on how to understand gender in the colonial context in Palestine.