INVITED LECTURE by Dr. Amal Elsana
When:
Thu, Apr 16, 2020
@ 1-2 pm
Where:
Via Zoom Meeting
https://
mcgill.zoom.us/
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Dr. Amal Elsana Alhjooj is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard
University’s Women and Public Policy Program and the Executive Director
of ICAN-McGill. Dr Elsana obtained her PhD and MSW from McGill Universi-
ty and has a BSW from Ben Gurion University.
Dr. Elsana has spent over twenty-five years working with indigenous
and minority communities to organise against and challenge exclusionary
policies and to implement sustainable solutions for social change. This rich
practical experience fed into her Ph.D. research where she explored the
tensions that indigenous social change organisations face when combining
service and advocacy, for which she received the Director’s Prize for Out-
standing Doctoral Research. She is the recipient of many additional awards
including the Genius 100 Visionaries of the Future (2017), the New Israel
Fund’s Human Rights Award (2013) and was nominated for the Nobel Peace
prize (2006).
For the last five years Dr. Elsana has been dedicated to unpacking
indigenous social work knowledge, research, and practice. Her research
seeks to contribute to a body of knowledge on indigenous and minority civil
society organisations and their role in promoting social change and commu-
nity development in the Middle East.
Dr. Elsana is currently the Principal Investigator of a SSHRC Partnership
Engage grant which explores women’s economic empowerment program-
ming in the context of political conflict and patriarchal practices in Pales-
tine. Through her post-doctorate at Harvard she is conducting research fo-
cused on the challenges facing Bedouin Palestinian women’s organisations
in promoting public policy to combat gender-based violence in Israel. Dr.
Elsana will present the preliminary findings from her postdoctoral research
and share her teaching approach and research program.
Like leaving footprints in the desert: Unpacking the challenges of Indigenous Bedouin Women Ac-
tivists in combating GBV in the Naqab, Israel
