When I Dare to be Powerful: Keynote Professor Rabab Abdulhadi

Listen to the keynote lecture by Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, chaired by Mahasen Nasser-Eldin.

Professor Rabab Abdulhadi is founding Director and Senior Scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Affiliated Sexuality Studies Faculty, at San Francisco State University. Before joining SFSU, she served as the first director of the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. She has served on several boards, including the Afro-Middle East Center, the World Congress of Middle East Studies (2006-2021); and the Executive Committee of California Scholars for Academic Freedom, US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. She is an editorial board member of Islamophobia Studies Journal and Editorial Colectiva for Chicana/Latina Studies Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. She is co-author of Mobilizing Democracy: Changing US Policy in the Middle East. She published over 80 academic articles, book chapters, and anthologies in seven languages. She has been recognised by the academy and community with awards such as Yale University and American University in Cairo Teaching Excellence award; The National Arab American non-fiction book; MESA, AAUP, IFCO, American Muslims for Palestine, Arab Feminist Union, and was named Bay Area Visionary by the National Women’s Studies Association, to name a few.

She continues to resist over 15 year campaign of new McCarthyism, bullying, smearing, death threats and lawsuits by pro-Israel lobby network to silence and intimidate her and dismantle the AMED Studies program, a critical race theory and pedagogical praxis multisite centre at San Francisco State University.