Transnational Feminist Solidarity in Times of Crisis

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Notes on Contributors

Rabab Abdulhadi is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies and Senior Scholar in Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence and Belonging (Syracuse University Press, 2015) and the Islamophobia Studies Journal.

Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her publications include We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics & Politics in a Time of War (Syracuse University Press, 2012, co-edited with Deborah al-Najjar) and What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (University of California Press, 2009).

Felicia Eaves has been a dedicated human rights activist and advocate for over twenty years. She served as Vice Chair of Black Voices for Peace (2003–06) and has led US delegations to the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She is currently Co-Chair of the Steering Committee with the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

Ronit Lentin is a retired Associate Professor of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. Her publications include Migrant Activism and Integration from below in Ireland (Palgrave, 2012, co-authored with Elena Moreo) and Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba (Manchester University Press, 2010).

Simona Sharoni is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh. She is the author of Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance (Syracuse University Press, 1995) and co-editor of the Handbook on gender and war (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2016, with Julia Welland, Linda Steiner and Jennifer Pedersen). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

Dina M. Siddiqi divides her time between the USA and Bangladesh where she is Professor of Anthropology at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her publications include “Solidarity, Sexuality and Saving Muslim Women in Neoliberal Times” (Women's Studies Quarterly, 2014) and “Starving for Justice: Bangladeshi Garment Workers in a ‘Post-Rana Plaza’ World” (International Labor and Working Class History, 2015).

Notes

1 As Israel is a Jewish state by definition, being “Jewish” is not simply a religion in the Israeli context: it is also a form of identity and identification.