INTRODUCTION
Dr. Nadia Naser-Najjab is an internationally recognized Palestinian scholar, author, and educator whose work critically engages with the politics of knowledge production, resistance, and peacebuilding within the context of settler colonialism.
She is currently based at the University of Exeter, where she teaches and conducts research in Middle East Studies, and is the Program Director of MA in Palestine Studies.
Dr. Naser-Najjab holds a PhD in Middle East Studies from the University of Exeter and earned her undergraduate degree from Birzeit University in Palestine.
Prior to her current role, she was an Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, teaching across the Departments of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Educational Psychology, and the MA in Arab Contemporary Studies.
She has held several other appointments and advisory positions in esteemed institutions including the Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, and the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL).
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Naser-Nijjab is a member of the intellectual committee of Palestine forum, an initiative that includes Palestinian intellectuals, academics, artists and activists from occupied territory, historical Palestine and exile.
The Forum organises workshops and seminars and invites speakers to exchange ideas and views on rebuilding Palestinian institutions and examine future solutions. This enables her to share non-western research and material in Arabic, that is not available in English language with students to improve their knowledge.
In recognition of her innovative and impactful teaching methods, she received the AMIDEAST Teaching Excellence Award.
Her courses include:
Conflict and Peacemaking in Palestine/Israel
The Palestine Question: Past and Present
Israeli Peace Movements and Palestinian Resistance
Dr Naser-Najjab research draws upon original first-hand ethnographic grounded research, including extensive interviews with Palestinian leaders of the first intifada, Palestinian Authority, activists and civil society actors, and builds upon on her own lived experience.
Her contributions were significant to Palestinian Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations, and European Studies.
She is the author of two monographs:
Dialogue in Palestine: The People-to-People Diplomacy Programme and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (I.B. Tauris, 2020)
Covid-19 in Palestine: The Settler Colonial Context (I.B. Tauris, 2024)
MEDIA
EVENTS
“I have to live in hope. To survive, a colonized people must have hope.”
— Dr. Nadia Naser-Najjab