Pembroke Center

Nadje Al-Ali is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies. Her main research interests revolve around feminist activism and gendered mobilization, mainly with reference to Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Kurdish political movement. Her publications include Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (Zed Books, 2007); Secularism, Gender & the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement (Cambridge University Press, 2000); What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq, co-authored with Nicola Pratt (2009, University of California Press); Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives, co-edited with Nicola Pratt (Zed Books, 2009); Gender, Governance and Islam, edited jointly with Deniz Kandiyoti and Kathryn Spellman Poots (University of Edinburgh Press, 2019); and Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe: Queer Feminist Critiques, co-edited with Tunay Altay and Katharina Galor (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024);. Her co-edited book with Deborah al-Najjar titled We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War (Syracuse University Press) won the 2014 Arab-American book prize for non-fiction.