Islah Jad 

Islah Jad is an Associate Professor at BirZeit University.  Jad served as the director of the Women’s Studies Institute from 2008-2013. She is a founding member of its women’s studies MA program and she is a founding member of the first Ph.D program in Social Sciences at BirZeit University.  She has written books and papers on the role of women in politics, Palestinian women and the relationships among them, Islam, and NGOs. Jad is the author of Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism, Syracuse University Press (2018), and Gender in a Fragmented non-Sovereignty in (ed.) DenizKandiyoti, Women, Islam and the State Revisited. Edinburgh University Press (2019).