Nadje Al-Ali
· Robert Family Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East StudiesBrown University · International and Public Affairs
Active 1970–2023
About
Nadje Al-Ali is the Robert Family Professor of International Studies and a Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at Brown University. Her main research interests revolve around feminist activism and gendered mobilization, with a focus on Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Kurdish political movement. Her work explores women’s and gendered mobilizations in the Middle East as well as the gendered dimensions of transnational migration and diaspora mobilization, including regions such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq, and the Kurdish political movement. Her publications include books and edited volumes on topics such as women and war in the Middle East, secularism, gender, and the state, and queer feminist critiques of far-right politics. She has recently started a project titled “Subversive Aesthetics: Creative Resistance in Authoritarian Contexts in the Middle East and North Africa,” which investigates how artists, writers, and activists in the MENA region utilize creative and embodied aesthetic practices to critique authoritarianism, navigate censorship, and build alternative social imaginaries. Her scholarly contributions provide empirical and theoretical insights into feminist activism, gender politics, and resistance in the Middle East and Europe.
Awards & honors
- 2014 Arab-American book prize for non-fiction
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