The NNIC Presents:
The Nevada Speakers Series – Fall 2009/Spring 2010
Special Guest Speaker:
Nadia Hijab
“Human Rights in the Middle East: Israel and Palestine at the Crossroads”
- Wednesday, January 27, 2010 – 7pm
- UNR Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center Auditorium
- Sponsored by NNIC, Co-Sponsored by ASUN Flipside, Sageridge School and UNR Political Science Department
- Free and open to the public
Hijab is a prominent Palestinian-American analyst, author and former journalist who comments frequently on human rights and the Middle East, and the situation of the Palestinians in particular.
Hijab has also been a prolific writer, authoring over 100 academic articles on a variety of subjects. In 1988, her first book Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work was published by Cambridge University Press, and was followed in 1990 by Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel, published by I.B. Tauris. In 1989, Hijab moved to the United States, where she spent several years working for the United Nations Development Programme in New York City. After working for the United Nations until 2000, she worked as a consultant for a variety of organizations and institutions, including the World Bank, UNICEF, and Columbia University. In 2006, Hijab joined the Institute for Palestine Studies as a Senior Fellow. She remains and active media commentator, and has published opinion pieces in online journals, in addition to drafting policy notes on issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the Institute for Palestine Studies.
See our Special Guest Speaker Series brochure (PDF, 545KB)