Nadia Hijab (Arabic: نادية حجاب, romanized: Nādya ḥijāb, [naːdjaħidʒaːb]) is a Palestinian political analyst,[1] author, and journalist who comments frequently on human rights and the Middle East, and the situation of the Palestinians in particular.
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.[5]
In 2010, she co-founded Al-Shabaka,[6][7][8] a virtual think tank bringing together over 200 Palestinian thinkers and writers from all over the world.[9] She was a member of the board of trustees at the Institute for Palestine Studies.[10]
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
^Barghouti, Omar (2011). BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions : the Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Haymarket Books. p. 276. ISBN978-1608461141.