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Nadine Naber

Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies

Biography

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Nadine Naber, Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies. (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/UIC)

For over two decades, Nadine Naber, an author, public speaker and activist, has researched and worked in communities on racial justice, activism among women of color, global feminism, women in the Middle East and Arab and Muslim Americans.

Through the organization MAMAS and the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Racial Discrimination and Torture, she helps lead research about the role of mothers of color in activist and policy efforts to end police violence, militarism and migration restrictions. 

At UIC, Naber is the faculty founder of the Arab American Cultural Center, co-director of Global Middle East Studies and director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. She is the author of “Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism” and co-editor of four books. In addition to her most recent book project, “Pedagogies of the Radical Mother,” she is co-authoring a book on community-based research methods. Naber also publishes ongoing scholarship about feminist movements in the Middle East. Various media outlets, including NPR, The New York Times, WBEZ Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Ms. Magazine and CBS News, have cited her analysis.

Languages spoken: English and Arabic