Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder
Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (born September 5, 1976) is an Israeli-Arab sociologist, anthropologist, and feminist activist with a specialty in gender studies. She is the first Bedouin woman in Israel to receive a doctorate, and to be promoted to Associate Professor. In June 2021, she was appointed Vice-President for Diversity and Inclusion at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Early life and education Sarab Abu-Rabia was born in Beersheba, September 5, 1976. She is the eldest daughter of Abu Yunis, the first Bedouin doctor in the country, a resident of the tribe of Abu Rabia, the largest and most well-known in the Negev. Her mother is from northern Israel. Abu Rabia has three sisters and a brother. She studied at the Comprehensive High School in Beersheba, one of the better-funded Jewish schools in the city, and was the only Bedouin among 400 Jewish students. She received a Ph.D. from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2006, and carried out postdoctoral fellowship in Gender Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Oxford in England. Research and career Abu-Rabia-Queder has been described in a literature review of Palestinian anthropology as "a pioneer of scholarship on the economies of Palestinian Bedouin women in Israel." She is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She teaches Arab feminism in the Middle East, on Diversity and racism in the academic world. Her research includes education and employment among minority populations. She has published three books on the subject. A feminist activist and activist for the rights of Bedouin society in the Negev, she is one of the founders of the Forum of Arab Women's Organizations in the Negev. She serves as book review editor of Hagar Journal: Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities. Abu-Rabia-Queder's approach relies on postcolonial critique. Her areas of expertise and research include: Sociology of education, employment and gender in the mirror of postcolonial theory inequality Marginalization among indigenous minorities, particularly Palestinian society, Bedouin society, and Ethiopian women Native feminism and epistemic justice Personal life She married Hassan Abu Qweider, an accountant, and is the mother of three sons. Abu-Rabia-Queder lives in Be'er Sheva. Awards and honors 2007-2008 - Breslauer Family, N.Y 2007-2008 - Pears Family Foundation, London, UK 2007-2008 - The Association for Promoting Bedouin Women s Education in the Negev, Israel 2005-2006 - University Women s Association in Israel, for the paper Women in Israeli Society Selected works Motivated and Loved: Stories of the Lives of Bedouin Educated Women, Magnes Press, The Hebrew University (2008) Palestinian Women in Israel: Identity, Power Relations and Coping, Hakibbutz Hame'uchad Publishing House and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (with Naomi Weiner-Levy, 2010) Class Identity in the Making: Prophylactic Philosophies in the Negev, Magnes Press, The Hebrew University (2017) In scientific journals Abu-Rabia-Queder, Sarab (2006). Between tradition and modernization: Understanding the problem of Bedouin female dropout, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 27 (1), 3-17 Abu-Rabia-Queder, Sarab (2007). Permission to rebel: Arab Bedouin women changing negotiation of social