Nadia Hijab is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for
Palestine Studies in Washington D.C..
She was Editor-in-Chief of the London-based Middle East
magazine before joining the United Nations, where she served as a senior
development officer. She resigned from the United Nations in 2000, to establish
her own consulting business on human rights, human development, and gender,
Development Analysis and Communication Services.
She is a syndicated columnist with Agence Global, a frequent commentator on the media, and a regular public speaker.
Hijab's first book, Womanpower: The Arab debate on women at work (1988) was
published by Cambridge University Press. She co-authored Citizens Apart: A
Portrait of Palestinians in Israel (I. B. Tauris 1990).