Journal of International Women's Studies Review: 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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Varied concepts of Arabness exist in the world and especially so in the world’s only remaining economic and military superpower, the United States of America. These concepts may have driven much of the USA’s involvement in the Middle East and the Arab world, even before the most recent past and especially the attacks of 11 September 2001 on the USA. A framework of analysis called Orientalism, dominated much of western scholarship on Arabs and other Asian peoples through essentialist representations that renders them incompatible with western civilization. It is against this background that Naber analyses middle-class Arab American families and Arab and Muslim social movements, through what she calls an interrogation of ‘the dichotomies that ensnares Arab communities as they clamor for a sense of safety and belonging in the United States”.