Islah Jad Explained

Islah Jad (born 1951) is a tenured assistant professor of Gender and Development at Birzeit University. She is also the co-founder and current Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit and a Core Group Member of the Arab Families Working Group. A prominent figure in the Palestinian women’s movement,^[1] Jad also helped to establish the Women’s Affair Centre in Gaza and Nablus, Les Amies du Francis, the Child Corner project in el-Bireh, and the WATC (Women’s Affairs Technical Committee).^[2] Jad carried out Gender Consultancy for the United Nations Development Programme and was a co-author of the United Nation’s Arab Human Development Report of 2005. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Cairo University, a master's degree in political theory from the University of Nantes, and a Ph.D. in gender and development studies from the University of London.

WATC was established in 1992 in Ramallah, West Bank.^[3]

Selected publications

• Jad, Islah. 2005. “Islamist Women of Hamas: A New Women’s Movement?” In On Shifting Ground; Muslim Women in a Global Era, edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone. New York: The Feminist Press.
• UNDP. Jad, Islah (core team member) and others. 2006. Arab Human Development Report, 2005: Women’s Empowerment. New York: UNDP.
• Jad, Islah. 2005–2006. “Letters from Ramallah.” Bahithat 11: 206–226.
• −−−. Re-reading the British mandate in Palestine: gender and the urban rural divide through health care and education . . 39 . 3 . 338–342 . 10.1017/S002074380707047X . August 2007 . Jad . Islah . 161308092 .
• −−−. NGOs: Between buzzwords and social movements . Development in Practice . 17 . 4–5 . 622–629 . 10.1080/09614520701469781 . August 2007 . Jad . Islah . 144027087 .
• −−−. Ph.D. . 2008 . Women at the cross-roads: the Palestinian women's movement between nationalism, secularism and Islamism . .
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• −−−. The politics of group weddings in Palestine: political and gender tensions . . 5 . 3 . 36–53 . 10.2979/mew.2009.5.3.36 . 10.2979/mew.2009.5.3.36 . Fall 2009 . Jad . Islah . 145529800 .
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• −−−. The conundrums of post-Oslo Palestine: gendering Palestinian citizenship . . 11 . 2 . 149–169 . 10.1177/1464700110366809 . August 2010 . Jad . Islah . 143673217 .
• −−−. Islamist women of Hamas: between feminism and nationalism . Inter-Asia Cultural Studies . 12 . 2 . 176–201 . 10.1080/14649373.2011.554647 . June 2011 . Jad . Islah . 144924736 .
• Jad, Islah. 2020. "NGOs: Between Buzzwords and Social Movements." In Women's Grassroots Mobilization in the MENA Region Post-2011 (Kelsey Norman, ed.).Baker Institute (Houston, TX). 28 June 2020. https://doi.org/10.25613/j0tx-w723^[4]

See also

• Diaspora Studies
• Women in Islam
• Palestine
• Women’s Studies
• Gender Studies
• Transnationalism
• Development Studies
• Rula Hassanein

External links

• Feature in Media Monitors Network: http://www.mediamonitors.net/islahjad1.html
• Interview with the Monthly Review: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2009/jones180109.html
• Feature in Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/2008/04/28/our-dreams-are-dead.html

Notes and References

1. Web site: Islah Jad — SSRC . 2011-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120321112320/http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/islah-jad/person_view . 2012-03-21 . dead .
2. Web site: Islah Jad. 2009-03-02.
3. Web site: Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC). www.annalindhfoundation.org.
4. 2020-06-28. MENA: Women's Grassroots Mobilization. 2021-01-17. bakerinstitute.org. en-US. 10.25613/j0tx-w723. Norman. Kelsey P..