Nadia Hijab is a Palestinian political analyst, author, and journalist who comments frequently on human rights and the Middle East, and the situation of the Palestinians in particular.

Biography

Hijab was born in Aleppo, Syria to Palestinian Arab parents, Wasfi Hijab and Abla Nashif, but grew up in neighboring Lebanon, where she earned a BA and MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. During her years of study in Beirut, Hijab worked as a journalist, but she left Lebanon after the onset of the Lebanese Civil War. She traveled first to Qatar, and then to London, England, where she became the editor-in-chief of Middle East Magazine and appeared frequently in the media as a commentator on Middle East affairs. In 1989, Hijab moved to the United States, where she worked for 10 years in New York City as a development specialist for the United Nations Development Programme. In 2010, she co-founded Al-Shabaka, a virtual think tank bringing together over 200 Palestinian thinkers and writers from all over the world. She was a member of the board of trustees at the Institute for Palestine Studies.

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