Small Places and Big Issues: Three Palestinian Neighbourhood Under Occupation

Lamis Abu Nahleh is a professor and researcher at the University of Birzeit on the education of English and Arabic languages, linguistics as well as gender and development. She made many researches in Arabic and English over the following issues: gender and education, family and household, loan programs and small projects, disability, and the honor killing. She is also an advisor on the analysis and planning of the policies of programs and projects for development from a gender’s perspective, and the means to integrate this factor in planning, developmental policies and scientific researches. She is preparing for researches on weddings and their arrangements (jointly with Penny Johnson), and on the situation of old men and women in the Palestinian family.

Amira Salmi is a teacher and researcher at the Institute of Women’s Studies at the University of Birzeit. She had a MA in gender, law and development from the same university for a research entitled “Representations of Palestinian Women in the Western Colonial Discourse”. Salmi worked as professor, coordinator of cultural activities and researcher in the popular campaign against the apartheid wall as she participated in the preparation and writing of the campaign’s report over the wall’s impact on Jerusalem and the surrounding area (2006).