Nadine Naber
Biographic Data
| ID | 236050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadine Naber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadine |
| FAMILY NAME | Naber |
| SIGNATURE | NABER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 253 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Psychic Life of Liberation: From the Shatat
Arab and Black Feminisms
This essay explores the conditions out of which a diasporic anti-imperialist Arab feminist group came into alignment with the Women of Color Resource Center. It focuses on the history and leaders of the Women of Color Resource Center and its roots in the 1960s and 1970s people of color and women of color based movements in the United States in order to map alliances among black feminist thought, radical women of color movements, and Palestinian d…
Palestine is Ethnic Studies: The Struggle for Arab American Studies in K–12 Ethnic Studies Curriculum
Ethnic Studies pedagogy is anchored in critically analyzing global white supremacy, US imperialism, and colonialism, which includes what happened to and continues in the Arab world. Given that most Arab countries are in Asia and the similarities and connections across "Arab" and "Asian" experiences, the field of Arab American studies found an early home within Asian American studies programs and academic journals. This article explores the emerge…
Reproductive Justice from Turtle Island to Palestine
Reproductive Justice from Turtle Island to Palestine Nadine Naber (bio) —april ward, mother of incarcerated Mickiael Ward,1 a survivor of psychological police torture, struggles each day, wondering if, as she puts it, her baby is going to live or die and whether she will ever be reunited with him again: I also have two nephews. When they walk out of the house, I don't know if the police are going to harm them–if they're coming back. It doesn't ma…
JPS “Hidden Gems” and “Greatest Hits”: Palestine through the Lens of Activism
This final essay in the “greatest hits” and “hidden gems” series tackles the topic of activism. Noting the richness and diversity of JPS’s contributions in this regard, Nadine Naber hones in on the necessity for hope and for grassroots mobilization at this Palestinian juncture. She exhorts readers to revisit Jonathan Kuttab’s 1988 essay, “The Children’s Revolt,” and Salim Tamari’s article, “The Palestinian Movement in Transition: Historical Rever…
The Radical Potential of Mothering during the Egyptian Revolution
62 Feminist Studies 47, no. 1. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Nadine Naber The Radical Potential of Mothering during the Egyptian Revolution During the central period of the Egyptian revolution—generally recognized as the eighteen days between January 25 and February 11, 2011—as well as the months that followed, mainstream Egyptian and US media discourses reified patriarchal nationalist notions of mothering and revolution. A Reuters article ref…
Epilogue
Pedagogies of Resistance: Why Anti-Muslim Racism Matters
The following interview with a collective of scholars describes the organization, conceptualization, and thematic framework of the online syllabus #IslamophobiaisRacism. The goals of the syllabus include theorizing anti-Muslim racism and developing strategies to combat white supremacy
Reflections on Feminist Interventions within the 2015 Anticorruption Protests in Lebanon
This essay reflects upon the themes of collaborative research, intersectional feminist activism, and social movements against corruption and sectarianism in the context of Lebanon. The authors focus on the summer of 2015 when protesters filled the streets in response to the government's mismanagement of garbage in what they called the "You Stink" movement. Feminists, primarily through the formation the "Feminist Bloc," joined in the protests and …
At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
On Palestinian Studies and Queer Theory
In this Journal of Palestine Studies roundtable, a group of Palestinian and Arab scholars and activists share their perspectives on the importance of Palestinian studies and queer theory
The U.S. and Israel Make the Connections for Us”: Anti-Imperialism and Black-Palestinian Solidarity
Arab and Black Feminisms
This essay explores the conditions out of which a diasporic anti-imperialist Arab feminist group came into alignment with the Women of Color Resource Center. It focuses on the history and leaders of the Women of Color Resource Center and its roots in the 1960s and 1970s people of color and women of color based movements in the United States in order to map alliances among black feminist thought, radical women of color movements, and Palestinian d…
Attacks on Feminists in Egypt: The Militarization of Public Space and Accountable Solidarity
This essay contextualizes what is often referred to as the attack against feminists in Egypt. Rather than a broad sweeping attack on "feminists," there is currently an attack on specific feminist individuals and organizations as part of a systematic attack on any and all remnants of the Egyptian revolution including any and all groups and individuals critical of President Sisi and his authoritarian regime as well as social and gender non-conforma…
Reframing the war on terror: Feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activism in the context of the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
This article seeks to expand the kinds of questions we ask about the diverse militarized campaigns referred to collectively as the "war on terror," the grassroots resistance to these wars, and efforts committed to creating a world without destruction and killing. Shifting the focus of this feminist critique of war away from the center of power (the empire) to the everyday lives of feminist and queer activists living the war on terror from the gro…
Imperial Whiteness and the Diasporas of Empire
Focusing on Arab diasporic engagements with the structures of Zionist and US imperial war within the United States, this essay calls for collapsing spatiotemporal distinctions between the Middle East and the United States in Middle East studies, American studies, and Arab American studies. The author reflects on the significance of imperialism and white supremacy to the experience of living a US and Israeli-led military invasion from the distance…
Sondra Hale’s Ethnographic Accountability
Meeting Report| March 01 2014 Sondra Hale’s Ethnographic Accountability Nadine Naber Nadine Naber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 128–132. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.1.128 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nadine Naber; Sondra Hale’s Ethnographic Accountability. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 March 201…
Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging
In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles among Arab communities. Contributors hail from multiple geo-graphical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of …
Transnational Families Under Siege
This article is based on ethnographic research among southern Lebanese in Dearborn, Michigan, in the aftermath of the 2006 war in Lebanon. It focuses on the significance of family and gender in the intensification of long-distance nationalism among Lebanese in diaspora. The war inspired a sense of belonging to a transnational Lebanese family under siege. This naturalized the practice of “comfort mothering,” which met the emotive needs of a diaspo…
The Rules of Forced Engagement: Race, Gender, and the Culture of Fear among Arab Immigrants in San Francisco Post-9/11
Based on ethnographic research on the impact of the aftermath of 11 September 2001 on Arab immigrant communities in San Francisco, this essay explores the ways that the Bush administration's 'war on terror' has taken on local form in everyday life. I argue that the post-9/11 backlash is not a historical anomaly, but represents a recurring process of the construction of the Other within liberal polities in which long-term trends of racial exclusio…
Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/ American(ized) Whore
Muslim First, Arab Second: A Strategic Politics of Race and Gender
Peer Reviewed
So Our History Doesn't Become Your Future: The Local and Global Politics of Coalition Building Post September 11th
ON SEPTEMBER 11th, in the marginalized and geographically distant spaces of activism in Oakland, California, and my neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, a shared response emerged: "Clearly, the September 11th attacks were heinous, but the U.S. government should share responsibility for pursuing imperialist policies that helped create the historical conditions within which these attacks were inspired, planned, and carried out." 2 Within weeks after the a…
Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization
Research Article| March 01 2002 Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of the un World Conference against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices—A Conference Report Maylei Blackwell; Maylei Blackwell maylei blackwell is an activist-scholar whose work examines how racial and sexual difference shapes the challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist organizing in the Americas. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in…
Interseccionalidade em uma era de globalização: As implicações da Conferência Mundial contra o Racismo para práticas feministas transnacionais
Este relatório analisa a interseccionalidade como uma abordagem feminista com significante impacto nos discursos e debates durante o Fórum de ONGs e a Conferência Mundial Contra o Racismo, em Durban, África do Sul. O termo 'interseccionalidade' se refere às articulações entre a discriminação de gênero, a homofobia, o racismo e a exploração de classe. Falando do lugar de enunciação de mulheres de cor feministas situadas nos territórios geográficos…
Ambiguous insiders: An investigation of Arab American invisibility
This article explores Arab American "invisibility" as a central theme in the historical narrative of Arab immigrants and their descendants in North America. "Invisibility" is primarily addressed in terms of Arab Americans' paradoxical positioning within the US racial/ethnic classification system. The article argues that four central paradoxes shape Arab American identity. The first paradox is that Arab Americans are a complex, diverse community, …
Muslim First, Arab Second: A Strategic Politics of Race and Gender
Peer Reviewed
The Rules of Forced Engagement: Race, Gender, and the Culture of Fear among Arab Immigrants in San Francisco Post-9/11
Based on ethnographic research on the impact of the aftermath of 11 September 2001 on Arab immigrant communities in San Francisco, this essay explores the ways that the Bush administration's 'war on terror' has taken on local form in everyday life. I argue that the post-9/11 backlash is not a historical anomaly, but represents a recurring process of the construction of the Other within liberal polities in which long-term trends of racial exclusio…
The U.S. and Israel Make the Connections for Us”: Anti-Imperialism and Black-Palestinian Solidarity
Reframing the war on terror: Feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activism in the context of the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
This article seeks to expand the kinds of questions we ask about the diverse militarized campaigns referred to collectively as the "war on terror," the grassroots resistance to these wars, and efforts committed to creating a world without destruction and killing. Shifting the focus of this feminist critique of war away from the center of power (the empire) to the everyday lives of feminist and queer activists living the war on terror from the gro…
Imperial Whiteness and the Diasporas of Empire
Focusing on Arab diasporic engagements with the structures of Zionist and US imperial war within the United States, this essay calls for collapsing spatiotemporal distinctions between the Middle East and the United States in Middle East studies, American studies, and Arab American studies. The author reflects on the significance of imperialism and white supremacy to the experience of living a US and Israeli-led military invasion from the distance…
Interseccionalidade em uma era de globalização: As implicações da Conferência Mundial contra o Racismo para práticas feministas transnacionais
Este relatório analisa a interseccionalidade como uma abordagem feminista com significante impacto nos discursos e debates durante o Fórum de ONGs e a Conferência Mundial Contra o Racismo, em Durban, África do Sul. O termo 'interseccionalidade' se refere às articulações entre a discriminação de gênero, a homofobia, o racismo e a exploração de classe. Falando do lugar de enunciação de mulheres de cor feministas situadas nos territórios geográficos…
On Palestinian Studies and Queer Theory
In this Journal of Palestine Studies roundtable, a group of Palestinian and Arab scholars and activists share their perspectives on the importance of Palestinian studies and queer theory
Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/ American(ized) Whore
So Our History Doesn't Become Your Future: The Local and Global Politics of Coalition Building Post September 11th
ON SEPTEMBER 11th, in the marginalized and geographically distant spaces of activism in Oakland, California, and my neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, a shared response emerged: "Clearly, the September 11th attacks were heinous, but the U.S. government should share responsibility for pursuing imperialist policies that helped create the historical conditions within which these attacks were inspired, planned, and carried out." 2 Within weeks after the a…
Pedagogies of Resistance: Why Anti-Muslim Racism Matters
The following interview with a collective of scholars describes the organization, conceptualization, and thematic framework of the online syllabus #IslamophobiaisRacism. The goals of the syllabus include theorizing anti-Muslim racism and developing strategies to combat white supremacy
Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization
Research Article| March 01 2002 Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of the un World Conference against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices—A Conference Report Maylei Blackwell; Maylei Blackwell maylei blackwell is an activist-scholar whose work examines how racial and sexual difference shapes the challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist organizing in the Americas. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in…
Reflections on Feminist Interventions within the 2015 Anticorruption Protests in Lebanon
This essay reflects upon the themes of collaborative research, intersectional feminist activism, and social movements against corruption and sectarianism in the context of Lebanon. The authors focus on the summer of 2015 when protesters filled the streets in response to the government's mismanagement of garbage in what they called the "You Stink" movement. Feminists, primarily through the formation the "Feminist Bloc," joined in the protests and …
Attacks on Feminists in Egypt: The Militarization of Public Space and Accountable Solidarity
This essay contextualizes what is often referred to as the attack against feminists in Egypt. Rather than a broad sweeping attack on "feminists," there is currently an attack on specific feminist individuals and organizations as part of a systematic attack on any and all remnants of the Egyptian revolution including any and all groups and individuals critical of President Sisi and his authoritarian regime as well as social and gender non-conforma…
Transnational Families Under Siege
This article is based on ethnographic research among southern Lebanese in Dearborn, Michigan, in the aftermath of the 2006 war in Lebanon. It focuses on the significance of family and gender in the intensification of long-distance nationalism among Lebanese in diaspora. The war inspired a sense of belonging to a transnational Lebanese family under siege. This naturalized the practice of “comfort mothering,” which met the emotive needs of a diaspo…
Middle East Section: MES Student Network
Ambiguous insiders: An investigation of Arab American invisibility
This article explores Arab American "invisibility" as a central theme in the historical narrative of Arab immigrants and their descendants in North America. "Invisibility" is primarily addressed in terms of Arab Americans' paradoxical positioning within the US racial/ethnic classification system. The article argues that four central paradoxes shape Arab American identity. The first paradox is that Arab Americans are a complex, diverse community, …
So Our History Doesn't Become Your Future: The Local and Global Politics of Coalition Building Post September 11th
ON SEPTEMBER 11th, in the marginalized and geographically distant spaces of activism in Oakland, California, and my neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, a shared response emerged: "Clearly, the September 11th attacks were heinous, but the U.S. government should share responsibility for pursuing imperialist policies that helped create the historical conditions within which these attacks were inspired, planned, and carried out." 2 Within weeks after the a…
Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization
Research Article| March 01 2002 Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of the un World Conference against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices—A Conference Report Maylei Blackwell; Maylei Blackwell maylei blackwell is an activist-scholar whose work examines how racial and sexual difference shapes the challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist organizing in the Americas. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in…
Interseccionalidade em uma era de globalização: As implicações da Conferência Mundial contra o Racismo para práticas feministas transnacionais
Este relatório analisa a interseccionalidade como uma abordagem feminista com significante impacto nos discursos e debates durante o Fórum de ONGs e a Conferência Mundial Contra o Racismo, em Durban, África do Sul. O termo 'interseccionalidade' se refere às articulações entre a discriminação de gênero, a homofobia, o racismo e a exploração de classe. Falando do lugar de enunciação de mulheres de cor feministas situadas nos territórios geográficos…
Muslim First, Arab Second: A Strategic Politics of Race and Gender
Peer Reviewed
The Rules of Forced Engagement: Race, Gender, and the Culture of Fear among Arab Immigrants in San Francisco Post-9/11
Based on ethnographic research on the impact of the aftermath of 11 September 2001 on Arab immigrant communities in San Francisco, this essay explores the ways that the Bush administration's 'war on terror' has taken on local form in everyday life. I argue that the post-9/11 backlash is not a historical anomaly, but represents a recurring process of the construction of the Other within liberal polities in which long-term trends of racial exclusio…
Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/ American(ized) Whore
Transnational Families Under Siege
This article is based on ethnographic research among southern Lebanese in Dearborn, Michigan, in the aftermath of the 2006 war in Lebanon. It focuses on the significance of family and gender in the intensification of long-distance nationalism among Lebanese in diaspora. The war inspired a sense of belonging to a transnational Lebanese family under siege. This naturalized the practice of “comfort mothering,” which met the emotive needs of a diaspo…
Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging
In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles among Arab communities. Contributors hail from multiple geo-graphical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of …
Sondra Hale’s Ethnographic Accountability
Meeting Report| March 01 2014 Sondra Hale’s Ethnographic Accountability Nadine Naber Nadine Naber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 128–132. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.1.128 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nadine Naber; Sondra Hale’s Ethnographic Accountability. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 March 201…
Reframing the war on terror: Feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activism in the context of the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
This article seeks to expand the kinds of questions we ask about the diverse militarized campaigns referred to collectively as the "war on terror," the grassroots resistance to these wars, and efforts committed to creating a world without destruction and killing. Shifting the focus of this feminist critique of war away from the center of power (the empire) to the everyday lives of feminist and queer activists living the war on terror from the gro…
Imperial Whiteness and the Diasporas of Empire
Focusing on Arab diasporic engagements with the structures of Zionist and US imperial war within the United States, this essay calls for collapsing spatiotemporal distinctions between the Middle East and the United States in Middle East studies, American studies, and Arab American studies. The author reflects on the significance of imperialism and white supremacy to the experience of living a US and Israeli-led military invasion from the distance…
Arab and Black Feminisms
This essay explores the conditions out of which a diasporic anti-imperialist Arab feminist group came into alignment with the Women of Color Resource Center. It focuses on the history and leaders of the Women of Color Resource Center and its roots in the 1960s and 1970s people of color and women of color based movements in the United States in order to map alliances among black feminist thought, radical women of color movements, and Palestinian d…
Attacks on Feminists in Egypt: The Militarization of Public Space and Accountable Solidarity
This essay contextualizes what is often referred to as the attack against feminists in Egypt. Rather than a broad sweeping attack on "feminists," there is currently an attack on specific feminist individuals and organizations as part of a systematic attack on any and all remnants of the Egyptian revolution including any and all groups and individuals critical of President Sisi and his authoritarian regime as well as social and gender non-conforma…
The U.S. and Israel Make the Connections for Us”: Anti-Imperialism and Black-Palestinian Solidarity
At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
On Palestinian Studies and Queer Theory
In this Journal of Palestine Studies roundtable, a group of Palestinian and Arab scholars and activists share their perspectives on the importance of Palestinian studies and queer theory
Reflections on Feminist Interventions within the 2015 Anticorruption Protests in Lebanon
This essay reflects upon the themes of collaborative research, intersectional feminist activism, and social movements against corruption and sectarianism in the context of Lebanon. The authors focus on the summer of 2015 when protesters filled the streets in response to the government's mismanagement of garbage in what they called the "You Stink" movement. Feminists, primarily through the formation the "Feminist Bloc," joined in the protests and …
Pedagogies of Resistance: Why Anti-Muslim Racism Matters
The following interview with a collective of scholars describes the organization, conceptualization, and thematic framework of the online syllabus #IslamophobiaisRacism. The goals of the syllabus include theorizing anti-Muslim racism and developing strategies to combat white supremacy
JPS “Hidden Gems” and “Greatest Hits”: Palestine through the Lens of Activism
This final essay in the “greatest hits” and “hidden gems” series tackles the topic of activism. Noting the richness and diversity of JPS’s contributions in this regard, Nadine Naber hones in on the necessity for hope and for grassroots mobilization at this Palestinian juncture. She exhorts readers to revisit Jonathan Kuttab’s 1988 essay, “The Children’s Revolt,” and Salim Tamari’s article, “The Palestinian Movement in Transition: Historical Rever…
The Radical Potential of Mothering during the Egyptian Revolution
62 Feminist Studies 47, no. 1. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Nadine Naber The Radical Potential of Mothering during the Egyptian Revolution During the central period of the Egyptian revolution—generally recognized as the eighteen days between January 25 and February 11, 2011—as well as the months that followed, mainstream Egyptian and US media discourses reified patriarchal nationalist notions of mothering and revolution. A Reuters article ref…
Epilogue
Arab and Black Feminisms
This essay explores the conditions out of which a diasporic anti-imperialist Arab feminist group came into alignment with the Women of Color Resource Center. It focuses on the history and leaders of the Women of Color Resource Center and its roots in the 1960s and 1970s people of color and women of color based movements in the United States in order to map alliances among black feminist thought, radical women of color movements, and Palestinian d…
Palestine is Ethnic Studies: The Struggle for Arab American Studies in K–12 Ethnic Studies Curriculum
Ethnic Studies pedagogy is anchored in critically analyzing global white supremacy, US imperialism, and colonialism, which includes what happened to and continues in the Arab world. Given that most Arab countries are in Asia and the similarities and connections across "Arab" and "Asian" experiences, the field of Arab American studies found an early home within Asian American studies programs and academic journals. This article explores the emerge…
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Gender Studies (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (17 works) · History (15 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (9 works)