Name: Nahed Habiballah

Telephone: (+962) 796982959

(+970) 597282095
(+972) 547933121

e-mail address: habin358@newschool.edu

nahed.habiballah@aauj.edu
nahed_h@hotmail.com

Education:

2015 Ph.D. in Sociology

The New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
Dissertation: Aliens in Their Own Land: A Sociological Analysis of the Lives of
Palestinians in East Jerusalem.

2005 MA in Human Rights & Democratization, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

Thesis: Right to Property: Its Implications on The Palestinian Minority in Israel.

2003 MA in Women’s Studies, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Thesis: Palestinian Mothers Telling Their Stories as Mother of Martyrs

1996 BA in Archeology & English Literature, University of Haifa, Haifa.

Academic Experience:

Faculty Member at the Graduate School Fall 2015- Current

The Arab American University - Palestine

 Teaching and developing syllabi of Graduate Courses in Conflict Resolution and

Inter-Cultural Communication programs, among them: “Religion, Conflict &
Peace,” “Social Movements & Civil Society,” “Identity & Conflict,”
“Foundations of Social Theory,” “Definitions & Issues in Culture,” “Narrative &
Nationalism” and “Multiculturalism.”

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  Supervised Master’s theses in both programs
 Vice Chair of the Board of directors of “The Policy and Conflict Resolution
Studies Center.”

Research Assistant Fall 2011 – Spring 201

Worked with prof. Eiko Ikegami on ‘Second Life’ project
Sociology Department: The New School for Social Research, NY

Teaching Assistant Fall 2010 – Fall 2012

Teaching Global Issues in Design
Parson School of Design, The New School, NY

Research Assistant Spring 2010 – 2011

Assisted Prof. Jeffrey Goldfarb in researching material for his book “Reinventing
Political Culture”
Sociology Department: The New School for Social Research, NY

Consultant 2005 - 2006

Setting up a comprehensive plan for the establishment of a Refugee and Migration

Resource Unit at Birzeit University.
Funded by: International Development and Research Center (IDRC) – Canada
Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine

Graduate Assistant 2001-2002

Eastern Michigan University (EMU)
Women’s Studies program, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Responsibilities included:
 Research assistant on Women’s suffrage movement
 Teaching assistant in “Feminist Thought;” a graduate core class.
 Assisted in editing “Arab Studies Quarterly Journal.”

Professional Experience

Consultant 2007- 2008

The Technical Group for Educational and Administrative Consultation, Amman, Jordan
Responsibilities included:

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  Research & development of training materials for teachers on critical thinking.
 Translate and customize Critical Thinking assessment tools for students, teachers
and professionals which cater for the Arab World.
 Assist in the training of trainers on Critical Thinking material.

Program Officer 2006 - 2007

United Nations World Food Program, (UN WFP): Vulnerability Assessment Monitoring
& Evaluation (VAM M&E Unit), Jerusalem Country Office

Researcher/Coordinator 2003 - 2004

Panorama (The Palestinian Center for the Dissemination of Democracy and Community
Development), Ramallah, Palestine

Workshop presenter 1998-2000

Al-Muntada – The Young Scientists Club, Ramallah, Palestine

 Carried out workshops with children in the areas of history, environment and
archeology using the critical thinking approach.

Publications:

1- Habiballah, Nahed, The Unmaking of Arab Jerusalem through Settlement

Construction, Jerusalem Quarterly, Spring 2016, pp.111-117.
2- ،٢٠١٥ ‫يف‬K‫ ص‬،‫ون‬KK‫امن والخمس‬K‫دد الث‬KK‫ الع‬K،‫رائيلية‬KK‫ايا إس‬K‫ قض‬،‫تبعاد‬K‫م واالس‬K‫ القدس بين الض‬،‫ناهد حبيب هللا‬
١٢-٣ :‫صفحه‬.
3- Israel’s Culture of Violence, Public Seminar, Sep. 3, 2014,
http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/09/israels-culture-of-violence/
#.VNTesI10zIU
4- Gaza: How will it End? Public Seminar, July, 21, 2014,
http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/07/gaza-how-will-it-end/#.VNTe6I10zIU
5- Democracy, Israel and Egypt, Deliberately Considered, February, 15, 2011,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/02/democracy-israel-and-egypt/
6- Between Motherhood & Martyrdom: The ‘Martyr’s Paradise’ Myth, Canon
Magazine, 2010,
7- Interviews with Mothers of Martyrs of the Aqsa Intifada, Arab Studies Quarterly,
Volume 26, Number1, winter 2004.

Paper represented in Conferences:

1. “Moving Forward: An All Inclusive Palestinian National Narrative” in

Palestinian-Polish Conference in the Arab American University, Oct. 2018,
Ramallah, Palestine
2. “Emotions, Citizenship and the Nation-State,” in ASA Annual Meeting “Feeling
Race,” 10-14 August, 2018, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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 3. “National Identity & Post-Orientalism” in “Orientalism, Neo-Orientalism and
Post-Orientalism” May, 17-18, 2018, Shanghai University, China.
4. “Palestinian Jerusalemites: Aliens in their homeland,” 28, Nov. 2018, Queen’s
University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
5. “The Construction of the Israeli Identity and de- Construction of the Palestinian
Identity in ‘Greater’ Jerusalem” in the Conflict Resolution Conference, April,
2017, the Arab American University, Ramallah, Palestine,.
6. “Women’s Representation in Palestinian Film & Gender relation in a postcolonial
framework” in the Al-Ard Film Festival, March, 2017, University of Sardinia,
Sardinia, Italy.
7. “Political Culture and the Peace Movement in Israel” in the Annual American
Sociological Association’s Conference, August 2015, Seattle, WA, USA
8. “The Land of Figs and Olives: Cultural Identity in the Making” in The Limits of
Memory, April, 2010, the New School for Social Research, NY, USA.

Honors:

Dean’s Fellow Award 2010 – 2012

The New School for Social Research

Languages:

Arabic: Mother tongue

English: Excellent in reading, writing and speaking
Hebrew: good in reading, writing and speaking