Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
- B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- M.A., Clark University
- Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Contact Information
- Office: Carnegie 7
- Phone Number: 909.607.2028
- E-mail: Suheir.daoud@pomona.edu
- Classes
- Politics 89g: Intro to Middle East Politics (current)
Brief Bio
Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud is a Palestinian writer and scholar from Western Galilee (north Israel), who holds a PhD in political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Her main areas of scholarship concern gender, ethnic studies and the Palestinian minority in Israel. She worked in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) for seven years (1996-2003) as a political advisor for an Arab Knesset member. Prior to that she worked in the Israeli Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport; in Jerusalem at B’tselem (Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories); and in the YMCA in the Occupied Territories. She has been active in Arab and women’s rights in Israel for over 15 years. She founded Rooia Cultural Center in the Galilee. She has given numerous presentations and has led several workshops in academic settings, in women’s groups, and in NGO conferences in Israel and abroad. She is often featured as an analyst and writer in the Israeli media in Arabic and Hebrew, discussing issues of women’s and human rights, regional politics, and the Arabs in Israel. She has authored articles in Arabic, Hebrew and English and has published four volumes of Arabic poetry and literature. Her literary works have been widely reviewed in the Arab world and Europe. She was a weekly political columnist for Assennara newspaper in Nazareth (1995-98), and has written occasionally for Al-Ittihad (Haifa) since 1998, and for Al-Quds Al-Arabi (London) since 2000. She is a native Arabic speaker, and is fluent in Hebrew and English.