Nahla Abdo
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University
Globalization, ‘Culture Talk', and Palestinian Women's Resistance
Tuesday 06 March 2007
IIIS SEMINAR ROOM, 6th floor, Arts Building, TCD,
12.30-14:00
A L L W E L C O M E
Nahla Abdo (Ph.D.) is an Arab feminist activist, Professor of
Sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She has extensive
publications on women, racism, nationalism and the State in the Middle
East with special focus on Palestinian women. Among her recent
publications: Sociological Thought: Beyond Eurocentric thinking
(1989); Palestinian Women’s Ordeals in East Jerusalem (2006 with
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian); Violence in the Name of Honour:
Theoretical and Political Challenges (2004 with Shahrzad Mojab)
and Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian
and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (2002 -with Ronit
Lentin).
Professor Abdo is the founder of the Gender Research Unit at the Women's
Empowerment Project/Gaza Community Mental Health Program in Gaza. She is
the co-founder of Women Against Occupation in Canada.
Dr Ronit Lentin
Senior lecturer in Sociology / Course coordinator
MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies
Department of Sociology
School of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland