Feb.16: Talk on Palestinian Legislative Elections

Feb. 16, 5:30-7:30 pm

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Report and Analysis

Rabab Abdulhadi

The Brecht Forum
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Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, Director of the Center for Arab American Studies and Associate
Professor of Sociology at UM-D, has just returned from a research trip to the Middle East where she observed the Palestinian Legislative Elections. With the help of 10 field researchers from An-Najah University (Nablus), Professor Abdulhadi is among a few scholars in North America to attend this historic event.
A scholar of gender, nationalism, and post-colonial studies, Dr. Abdulhadi was in Palestine during the illness and passing of the late Palestinian leader, Yasser
Arafat (Nov. 2004), the Palestinian Presidential elections of Mahmoud Abbas in Jan. 2005, and the launching of the Legislative electoral campaign in early Jan. 2006. Dr. Abdulhadi will discuss the insights of her team on the elections and their impact on the Palestinian people, the Middle East region and U.S. Palestinian relations.


Rabab Abdulhadi served for 10 years as a U N journalist, Media Al-Quds.
She is the Director for Arab American Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at the Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn. She guest edited with Nadine Naber and Evelyn Alsultany for MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, "Gender, Nation and Belonging: Arab and Arab-American Feminist Perspectives" (May/June 2005) She is the author of many articles including "Activism and Exile: Constructing and Contesting Palestinianness" , "The Palestinian Women's Autonomous Movement: Emergence, Dynamics and Challenges", New Century International Scholar, Toward Equality: The Global Empowerment of Women, "From Self-Determination to Self-Rule (and Back
to Occupation: What Prospects for Palestinian Women?" and "The Empowerment of Palestinian Women" which appeared in Palestinian Elections: A Special Report for the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine.
Dr. Abudulhadi is a board member of the Brecht Forum.