Nationality Palestinian Name Nadia Hijab | Role Author | |
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Occupation Writer, Political analyst Books Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work | ||
Palestinian Author and Human Rights Advocate Nadia Hijab: It's Time to Move Over AIPAC
Nadia Hijab (Arabic: نادية حجاب), 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.
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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 B.A. and M.A. 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 as a development specialist for the United Nations Development Programme in New York City. 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.