Nadia Hijab Biography

Nadia Hijab has been a tireless advocate for justice and human rights. While at school she also worked as a journalist until she left for Qatar and then England in 1975 as the Lebanese civil war intensified. The experience helped her relate to the flight of her mother's family from Palestine. Then I understood.In England she became the Editor-in-Chief of Middle East Magazine and was a frequent commentator on the BBC and several other TV radio and print outlets. She authored over 100 articles and in 1988 Cambridge University Press published her first book Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work. Her second book Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel (IB Tauris) came out in 1990.In 1989 Hijab moved to New York to begin what was to be a 10 year period with the United Nations Development Programme. During that time she served in several departments within UNDP and helped organize the organization's contribution to the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights. After the UN Hijab has worked as a consultant for organizations such as the World Bank UNICEF UNDP and Columbia University on issues such as human rights human development gender and the media.

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