A close description of Amal El'Sana-Alh'jooj's experiences as a Palestinian Bedouin female activist, this book explores Amal's activism and demonstrates that activists' biographies provide a means of understanding the complexities of political situations they are involved in.

Autorentext
Author Henriette Dahan-Kalev: Henriette Dahan-Kalev is a reader in political science at Hebrew University. Her fields of research are democracy, theory and praxis, and gender theories and politics. She is the founder and first chair of the gender studies program at Ben Gurion University in the Negev. Author Emilie Le Febvre: Emilie Le Febvre is currently reading for a DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She has a MA in Middle East Studies from Ben Gurion University and a diploma in Policy Studies from Murdoch University.

Inhalt
Activism in the Middle East: Al-Naqab Bedouin Women in Israel A History of Bedouin in al-Naqab: Tiaha Qdeirat al-Sane' Three Generations of al-Sane' Women From 'Asha'ir to NGOs: Changing Sociopolitics in al-Naqab Bedouin Society Mediations of a Leading al-Naqab Bedouin Female Activist Concluding Analysis: The Activist Biography and Strategic Identification in Third Sector Fields