Amnesty Int'l Review of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
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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“The impact of Orientalism, I began to see, was everywhere. Our Arab community had a plethora of cultural and political organizations that put on musical concerts, festivals, banquets, and a range of political organizations that focused on civil rights issues and homeland politics. And yet, there were no resources for dealing with difficult issues in our families and communities” (p.4). It is this silence on what happens in the diaspora and the “bifurcated existence” of her generation of Arab Americans that motivated Nadine Naber to make the Arab American community in San Francisco’s Bay Area the subject of her scholarly research. In Arab America, she undertakes an exploration of the articulation of “Arabness” in America as it evolved in middle-class Arab American families and antiimperialist social movements within the community.