Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud
Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud (Arabic: سهير أبو عقصة داود) is a Palestinian writer, poet and professor. Since 2008, she has been a professor of Political Science at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina. Daoud also works as a member of the Al-Shabaka Palestinian policy thinktank.[1][2][3][4]
Early life and education
[edit]Daoud was born in the Melkite Greek Catholic village of Mi'ilya in Israel's Western Galilee area.[2][5][6] She earned her BA in political science and international relations from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her MA in international development and social change from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.[3] Daoud obtained her Ph.D. in political science from Jerusalem's Hebrew University.[2][1][3]
Career
[edit]Daoud worked as a political advisor and assistant for a Palestinian Knesset member Hashim Mahameed from 1996 to 2003.[3] After this, she began work in the United States, where she was a visiting scholar at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. She also held a postdoctoral position at Pomona College in Claremont, California, as a Mellon Post Doctorate Fellow. While in Claremont, she worked as a visiting assistant professor at Harvey Mudd College.[3][6][1]
Daoud has published numerous academic and artistic works in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. She has written for the avant-garde Arabic literary magazine Al Adab based in Beirut, and has published four volumes of Arabic poetry and literature.[3][1][5] Daoud was commissioned by the Washington, D.C. Shakespeare Theatre Company to write original poetry for their March 2005 performance of The Tempest.[7][6] In 2009, her book Palestinian Women and Politics and Israel, considered by Ghada Talhami as a 'pioneering' study in its field,[8] was published by the University of Florida Press.[1][9]
Books and articles
[edit]- Daoud, Suheir Abu Oksa. Palestinian Women in the Israeli Knesset, Middle East Report, Fall 2006, No. 240 pp. 26-31
- Daoud, Suheir Abu Oksa. Palestinian Women and Politics in Israel. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2009.[9]
- Daoud, Suheir Abu Oksa. "Why 1948 Palestinians Refuse to Protest against Israel's Judicial Reforms." Middle East Eye, 2 March 2023.
- Daoud, Suheir Abu Oksa. "Israel's Repeat Elections and the Arab Vote." Mondoweiss, 13 September 2019.[4]
- Daoud, Suheir Abu Oksa. Le finestre di Ghazalah, (tr.from the Arabic original (2001) by Isadora D'Aimmo), Città del Sole edizioni, Napoli, 2011 ISBN 978-8-882-92421-8.
- Daoud, Suheir Abu Oksa. "Palestinian Working Women in Israel: National Oppression and Social Restraints", Journal of Middle East Women's Studies vol. 8, no. 2 (1 July 2012): 78–101.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud". Al-Shabaka. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ a b c "Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ a b c d e f "Atheneum | Archived_newsletter | Coastal Carolina University". www.coastal.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ a b "Israel's repeat elections and the Arab vote". Mondoweiss. 2019-09-13. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ a b "Oh, My Nana". The Common. 2022-05-02. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ a b c "Contributors". Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 8 (2): 123–124. 2012. doi:10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.2.123. ISSN 1558-9579.
- ^ "Suheir Daoud - Coastal Carolina University". www.coastal.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ Ghada Talhami, Palestinian Women and Politics in Israel (review) Middle East Journal Middle East Institute, Volume 63, Number 4, Autumn 2009 pp.676-678.
- ^ a b UPF. "Palestinian Women and Politics in Israel". University Press of Florida. Retrieved 2024-03-06.