Fida Adely
Biographic Data
| ID | 649009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fida Adely |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fida |
| FAMILY NAME | Adely |
| SIGNATURE | ADELY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3084-6504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Education, displacement, and gender in Iraq after 2014
Poor education, unemployment and the promise of skills: The hegemony of the “skills mismatch” discourse
Getting In and Getting Through: Navigating Higher Education in Jordan
Jordanian families today face an educational edifice significantly changed by privatization, increased costs, and market-driven logics. While some students resist these structures through protests, we highlight the everyday ways in which Jordanians negotiate these changes and try to make the system work for them. Specifically, we analyze the educational experiences of students enrolled at Yarmouk University, one of the oldest public universities …
Decolonizing our questions/decolonizing our answers
Perhaps the most pernicious colonial baggage shaping engagements with the Arab world is gender. Knowledge of the region continues to be constructed upon the juxtaposition of the liberated Western f
Introduction to Special Issue: Ethnographies of Religious Education
The study of religion has long been central to scholarly efforts to understand diverse cultures, human practice, and meaning making. This issue highlights recent anthropological research on religious education in a multitude of spaces and within a range of faith experiences. Through rich ethnographic explorations, authors illuminate the engagement of a diverse subset of actors in religious education paying particular attention to pedagogical meth…
God made beautiful things: Proper faith and religious authority in a Jordanian high school
Outside the formal and intended curriculum in Jordanian schools, the efforts of students and instructors to teach about religion and living piously as Muslim women span a myriad of spaces and approaches. At the al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls, tensions surrounding religious authority were enmeshed with struggles outside school, specifically with a local piety movement and with a politics of authenticity that has women at its center. Competin…
Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen by Marina de Regt
Pensée 2: Everyday Youth Places: Youth in Educational Spaces
For most of the last century, within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region youth have been addressed and engaged as a particular category of citizens. In this vein youth were viewed as important targets of nationalist projects and as critical national resources in an era of national development. In more recent years, however, the concern with youth has taken on a new tenor both within and outside the region. What had previously been a pr…
Middle East Section
The Mixed Effects of Schooling for High School Girls in Jordan: The Case of Tel Yahya
God made beautiful things: Proper faith and religious authority in a Jordanian high school
Outside the formal and intended curriculum in Jordanian schools, the efforts of students and instructors to teach about religion and living piously as Muslim women span a myriad of spaces and approaches. At the al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls, tensions surrounding religious authority were enmeshed with struggles outside school, specifically with a local piety movement and with a politics of authenticity that has women at its center. Competin…
Poor education, unemployment and the promise of skills: The hegemony of the “skills mismatch” discourse
The Mixed Effects of Schooling for High School Girls in Jordan: The Case of Tel Yahya
Introduction to Special Issue: Ethnographies of Religious Education
The study of religion has long been central to scholarly efforts to understand diverse cultures, human practice, and meaning making. This issue highlights recent anthropological research on religious education in a multitude of spaces and within a range of faith experiences. Through rich ethnographic explorations, authors illuminate the engagement of a diverse subset of actors in religious education paying particular attention to pedagogical meth…
Decolonizing our questions/decolonizing our answers
Perhaps the most pernicious colonial baggage shaping engagements with the Arab world is gender. Knowledge of the region continues to be constructed upon the juxtaposition of the liberated Western f
Pensée 2: Everyday Youth Places: Youth in Educational Spaces
For most of the last century, within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region youth have been addressed and engaged as a particular category of citizens. In this vein youth were viewed as important targets of nationalist projects and as critical national resources in an era of national development. In more recent years, however, the concern with youth has taken on a new tenor both within and outside the region. What had previously been a pr…
The Mixed Effects of Schooling for High School Girls in Jordan: The Case of Tel Yahya
Middle East Section
Pensée 2: Everyday Youth Places: Youth in Educational Spaces
For most of the last century, within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region youth have been addressed and engaged as a particular category of citizens. In this vein youth were viewed as important targets of nationalist projects and as critical national resources in an era of national development. In more recent years, however, the concern with youth has taken on a new tenor both within and outside the region. What had previously been a pr…
Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen by Marina de Regt
God made beautiful things: Proper faith and religious authority in a Jordanian high school
Outside the formal and intended curriculum in Jordanian schools, the efforts of students and instructors to teach about religion and living piously as Muslim women span a myriad of spaces and approaches. At the al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls, tensions surrounding religious authority were enmeshed with struggles outside school, specifically with a local piety movement and with a politics of authenticity that has women at its center. Competin…
Introduction to Special Issue: Ethnographies of Religious Education
The study of religion has long been central to scholarly efforts to understand diverse cultures, human practice, and meaning making. This issue highlights recent anthropological research on religious education in a multitude of spaces and within a range of faith experiences. Through rich ethnographic explorations, authors illuminate the engagement of a diverse subset of actors in religious education paying particular attention to pedagogical meth…
Decolonizing our questions/decolonizing our answers
Perhaps the most pernicious colonial baggage shaping engagements with the Arab world is gender. Knowledge of the region continues to be constructed upon the juxtaposition of the liberated Western f
Getting In and Getting Through: Navigating Higher Education in Jordan
Jordanian families today face an educational edifice significantly changed by privatization, increased costs, and market-driven logics. While some students resist these structures through protests, we highlight the everyday ways in which Jordanians negotiate these changes and try to make the system work for them. Specifically, we analyze the educational experiences of students enrolled at Yarmouk University, one of the oldest public universities …
Poor education, unemployment and the promise of skills: The hegemony of the “skills mismatch” discourse
Education, displacement, and gender in Iraq after 2014
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works)