Contesting Memory/Narrating History

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Isis Nusair is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and International Studies at Denison University. She has earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Tel-Aviv University, a master’s degree in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a doctorate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Clark University. Her doctoral research is on the gendered politics of location of three generations of Palestinian women in Israel, 1948-1998. She teaches courses on transnational feminism; feminism in the Middle East and North Africa; and gender, war and conflict. Her current research focuses on the impact of war and displacement on Iraqi women refugees in Jordan and the USA. Isis previously served as a researcher on women’s human rights in the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch and at the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. She is the co-editor with Rhoda Kanaaneh of Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel (SUNY Press, 2010). Isis serves on the editorial committee of the Middle East Report and Information Project (MERIP).

Juxtaposing the narratives of Palestinian women in Israel with archival documents of the 1948 war

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Middle East Studies

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
Buchanan Hall, Meese

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