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Dr. Nadine Naber is a scholar activist from Al Salt, Jordan. She conducts research in collaboration with local communities of color, social movements, and policy-based processes.

Dr. Naber received her PhD in Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Davis in 2002. She is currently a Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).

Her work focuses on racial justice and MENA communities; Arab and Muslim feminist and queer activism; activist mothering within the Arab Spring revolutions and U.S. social movements; feminist abolition; feminist-queer of color activism against militarism, war, and colonization; feminist of color coalition/solidarity politics; and activist research methodologies.

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Recent Publications

See below for details of selected pieces from Dr. Naber’s research, including Books, Co-edited Volumes, Chapters, Book Length Reports and Journal Articles.

 

Books

with Eujin Park, Social Movement Led Research Methodologies. np Press (Essays on the Critical Humanities), FORTHCOMING

Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. New York University Press, 2012.

Co-Edited Volumes

with Arab Women’s Committee of the Arab American Action Network, Towards the Sun. Washington D.C.: Tadween Publishing, 2018.

with Rabab Abdulhadi and Evelyn Alsultany, Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging. Syracuse University Press, 2011.

with Amaney A. Jamal, Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects. Syracuse University Press, 2008.

with INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2006. (republished by Duke University Press, 2016)

Book Chapters

with Souzan Naser and Johnaé Strong, “Transnational Feminist Abolition—from the U.S. to Palestine.” In Reimagining Comparative Feminist Studies, edited by Chandra Mohanty and Dana Olwan. Palgrave Macmillan, FORTHCOMING.

with Rojas, Clarissa, “Genocide and ‘US’ Domination ≠ Liberation, Only We Can Liberate Ourselves: Towards an Anti-Imperialist Abolition Feminism.” In Abolition Feminisms. Vol. 1: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice, edited by Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, Brooke Lober, and Dean Spade, 18–52. Haymarket Books, 2022.

with Johnaé Strong, and Souzan Naser, “Radical Mother for the Purpose of Abolition.” In Abolition Feminisms. Vol. 2: Feminist Ruptures against the Carceral State, edited by Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, Brooke Lober, and Dean Spade, 190–210. Haymarket Books, 2022.

“The Labor Strikes That Catalyzed the Revolution in Egypt.” In Women Rising: In and beyond the Arab Spring, edited by Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad, 28–39. New York University press, 2020.

“Acculturation Paradigms to Feminist Intersectionality Paradigms in Arab American Families.” In Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews, edited by Suad Joseph, 369–86. Syracuse University Press, 2018.

“Diasporas of Empire: Arab Americans and the Gendered Reverberations of War.” In At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror, edited by Suvendrini Perera and Sherene Razack, 191–214. University of Toronto Press, 2018.

“What the Egyptian Revolution Informs Us about Gender and Women’s Liberation.” In The Revolutions of Arab Dignity: Ideas beyond Neoliberalism (Published in Arabic), Cairo: Arab Forum for Alternatives, 2013.

with Matthew Stiffler, “Maronite Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Sunni Muslims from the Arab Region: Between Empire, Racialization, and Assimilation.” In Misreading America: Scriptures and Difference, edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, 208–72. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

“Arab and Arab American Feminisms: An Introduction” and “Decolonizing Culture: Beyond Orientalist and Anti-Orientalist Feminisms.” In Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging, edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany Syracuse, and Nadine Naber. Syracuse University Press, 2011.

“Arab Americans and U.S. Racial Formations.” In Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects, edited by Amaney A. Jamal and Nadine Naber, 1–45. Syracuse University Press, 2008.

Reports & Public Resources

with Nicole Nguyen, Chris D. Poulos, Iván Arenas, Louise Cainkar, Nazek Sankari, Amanda E. Lewis, Nina Shoman-Dajani, and Zeina Zaatari, “Beyond Erasure and Profiling: Cultivating Strong and Vibrant Arab American Communities in Chicagoland.” IRRPP State of Racial Justice in Chicago Project. University of Illinois Chicago: Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP), January 2023.

co-researcher, Muslims of the Midwest: A Digital Archive. Michigan State University, launched 2017.

with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Arshad Ali, Evelyn Alsultany, Sohail Daulatzai, Lara Deeb, Carol Fadda, Zareena Grewal, Juliane Hammer, and Junaid Rana, Islamophobia Is Racism: Resource for Teaching & Learning about anti-Muslim Racism in the United States, Syllabus, 2016.

Journal Articles

Reproductive Justice from Turtle Island to Palestine.” Feminist Studies 49, no. 2 (2023): 545–46.

with Lara Kiswani and Samia Shoman, “Palestine Is Ethnic Studies: The Struggle for Arab American Studies in K–12 Ethnic Studies Curriculum.” Journal of Asian American Studies 26, no. 2 (June 2023): 221–31.

Epilogue, ‘Transnational Feminist Responses to Anti-Muslim Racism.’” Meridians 20, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 491–503.

The Radical Potential of Mothering during the Egyptian Revolution.” Feminist Studies 47, no. 1 (2021): 62.

with Deema Kaedbey, “Reflections on Feminist Interventions within the 2015 Anticorruption Protests in Lebanon.” Meridians 18, no. 2 (October 1, 2019): 457–70.

‘The U.S. and Israel Make the Connections for Us’: Anti-Imperialism and Black-Palestinian Solidarity.” Critical Ethnic Studies 3, no. 2 (2017): 15.

with Dalia Abdelhameed, “Attacks on Feminists in Egypt: The Militarization of Public Space and Accountable Solidarity.” Feminist Studies 42, no. 2 (2016): 520–27.

with Atef Said, “The Cry for Human Rights: Violence, Transition, and the Egyptian Revolution.” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 7, no. 1 (March 2016): 71–90.

Arab and Black Feminisms: Joint Struggle and Anti-Imperialist Activism.” Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 5, no. 3 (2016): 116–25.

“Enough Already! Alternatives to Orientalist Feminism.” Arab Studies Journal 23, no. 1 (Fall 2015): 438–45. [Review Essay. Reviewed Works: Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod; Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism by Karima Bennoune]

Imperial Whiteness and the Diasporas of Empire.” American Quarterly 66, no. 4 (December 2014): 1107–15.

with Zeina Zaatari, “Reframing the War on Terror: Feminist and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Activism in the Context of the 2006 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon.” Cultural Dynamics 26, no. 1 (March 2014): 91–111.

Sondra Hale’s Ethnographic Accountability.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 128–32.

Transnational Families Under Siege.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 5, no. 3 (November 1, 2009): 145–74.

The Rules of Forced Engagement: Race, Gender, and the Culture of Fear among Arab Immigrants in San Francisco Post-9/11.” Cultural Dynamics 18, no. 3 (November 2006): 235–67.

“Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/American(Ized) Whore.” Feminist Studies 32, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 87–111. [Reprinted in Sex, Gender, and Sexuality, edited by Abby Ferber, Kimberly Holcomb, and Tre Wentling, 2005. Reprinted in Doing Gender Diversity: Reading in Theory and Real-World Experience, edited by Rebecca Plante and Lis Maurer, 2009]

“Muslim First, Arab Second: A Strategic Politics of Race and Gender.” The Muslim World 95, no. 4 (October 2005): 479–95.

“Raise Up Your Voices So That We Can Hear You: Arab and Arab American Transnational Feminist Practices.” Tiyba: A Theoretical Feminist Journal, January 2003, 33–54.

with Maylei Blackwell, “Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Impact of the World Conference Against Racism on Transnational Feminist Practice (Report).” Meridians 2, no. 2 (2002): 237–48. [Translated and reprinted as “INTERSECCIONALIDADE EM UMA ERA DE GLOBALIZAÇÃO: AS IMPLICAÇÕES DA CONFERÊNCIA MUNDIAL CONTRA O RACISMO PARA PRÁTICAS FEMINISTAS TRANSNACIONAIS.” Revista Estudos Feministas

“So Our History Doesn’t Become Your Future: The Local and Global Politics of Coalition Building Post September 11th.” Journal of Asian American Studies 5, no. 3 (October 2002): 217–42. 

“Ambiguous Insiders: An Investigation of Arab American Invisibility.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 23, no. 1 (2000): 37–61.