Iraqi, Palestinian, and Syrian Women Refugees: Ethical Research and Communal Relations

Title: Iraqi, Palestinian, and Syrian Women Refugees: Ethical Research and Communal Relations 

Speaker: Dr. Isis Nusair. Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and International Studies at Denison University. 

Day/Time: Tuesday, October 24. 3.30 – 4.30 pm, PST 

Meeting ID: 777 004 5181 

Passcode: 952826 

Event Description: This presentation will focus on Dr. Nusair’s research over the last two decades with Iraqi, Palestinian, and Syrian refugee women in Israel, Jordan, Germany, and the USA. It will explore how one grounds their research in ethical and communal relations and commitments. It emphasizes the need for critical perspectives that challenge refugee objectification and marginalization of their voices. Dr. Nusair’s research examines the connection between displacement, trauma, violence, and resistance as crucial for understanding refugees’ complex and layered positioning. The focus is on refugee narratives as a mode of centering refugee agency, criticality, and survival. 

Speaker Bio: Dr. Isis Nusairi’s is a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies & International Studies at Denison University. She is co-editor with Rhoda Kanaaneh of Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender Among Palestinians in Israel and translator of Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq. Her upcoming co-edited anthology with Barbara Shaw is titled Feminist Collaborations in Teaching and Learning. She is completing two book manuscripts titled Permanent Transients: Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan and the USA and Gendered Narratives of Crossing of Refugees from Syria in Germany. Isis is the co-writer/director with Laila Farah of the one-woman performance, Weaving the Maps: Tales of Survival and Resistance. She is currently researching the body of war in Syrian TV series post-2011. She serves on the editorial committee of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She previously served on the editorial committee of MERIP and as a researcher on women’s human rights in the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network.  

Event Sponsors: Global Middle East Studies Program, and Departments of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and International Studies 

Event Organizers: Azza Basarudin (azza.basarudin@csulb.edu) and Yousef Baker (yousef.baker@csulb.edu)