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Washington College

Ibtisam Ibrahim

Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies

Education

B.A., University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 1987
M.A., Clark University, Worcester, MA, 1991
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

E-mail: iibrahim2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 5742
Office: Goldstein 116

Office Hours

Monday & Wednesday 2:30-3:30 p.m. (and by appointment)

Teaching Experience

2003-2004 - Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2002-2003 - Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2002-2003 - Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Spring 2001 - Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Spring 2001 - Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine

Teaching Interest

Contemporary Middle East
Islam and Society in the Contemporary Middle East
Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary World
Women in War and Peace
Religion, Culture, and Society in the Middle East
Conflict and Conflict Management in the Middle East
Islam in the U.S.

Research Interest

Minority/majority Relations: Case of Palestinian minority in Israel
War and its impact upon women's lives
Conflict and Peace: Arab/Israeli conflict
Race and racism
Women's migration: the case of Palestinian women
Democracy and Islam

Publications

"The Past's Promises: Lessons from Peace Processes in Northern Ireland and the Middle East." Journal of Peace Research. Co-author with Gregory Maney, Hanna Herzog, and Gareth Higgins. Vol. 43(2), March 2006.
"Debating Democracy in the Arab World." Civil Society: Democratization in the Arab World (a monthly publication of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies), Cairo, Egypt. Volume 9: Issue 98. February 2000.
"Israel's 'Ethnic Project' in the City of Shafa-Amr: Particularization of Identity along Religious Lines." Ph.D. dissertation, University Wisconsin-Madison. 2000.
"The Status of Arab Women in Israel." Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN. Spring 1998.
"Arab Women in Israeli Labor Market." Women, Upward Mobility: The Progress of Women in the Israeli Labor Market (Hebrew), edited by Anaat Ma'or, Poalim Press, Kibutz Dalia, Israel. 1997.
"Subordination and Exploitation of Palestinian Arab Women in Israel: the Case of Cucumber Pickers in Western Galilee." M.A. thesis. Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. 1991.

Courses Taught by Ibtisam Ibrahim

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Contemporary Middle East Politics and Society

The course introduces the students to the contemporary history, politics, and society of the Middle East and gives them the opportunity to develop a deeper comprehension of current issues in the region.
Introduction to Islam

The course allows students to understand the basic teachings of Islam and learn the history of Islam since its early years until today. It also analyzes the changing faces the religion of Islam in the modern world.
Women in War and Peace

This course will study how militarization and armed conflict in a country as a whole affects women's life and intensifies violence against women. It will also examine how the role of women within conflicts has often turned to peace-builders through a wide range of actions and activities against the war.
Religion, Society and Culture in the Middle East

This course aims to explore the complexity of interrelations between religion and other key aspects of culture, as well as social and political structures of Middle Eastern (ME) societies. It will provide an anthropological analysis of religion as an avenue to understanding ME societies. It also will address the diversity of people of ME societies by going beyond monolithic conceptions of the ME as a homogenous region and society, or Islam and other religions as having only one face.
Elementary Arabic I

This course is a beginner's level of standard Arabic and it is s two-semester course designed to give students a strong foundation at the elementary level in writing, reading, speaking and listening to modern standard Arabic.

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