International Academic Steering Committee

Associate professor and chair of the Anthropology Dept. at the University of Haifa.
Amalia’s main research topics include the intersections of gender, class, and
citizenship among the Palestinian citizens of Israel, feminist vernacular security
perspectives in Israel/Palestine, articulations of citizenship under neoliberalism,
generational relations in the Israeli feminist movement, and the habitus of religious
Muslim and Jewish women, as articulated in the fields of employment and fashion.

Amalia’s first book, Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment
(Berghahn Books, 2016) documents economic empowerment projects of low-income
Jewish and Palestinian women.

Her second book, Diversity: Palestinian career women in Israel (2021, Open University Press, in Hebrew), in collaboration with
Hawazin Younis, documents the journeys of Palestinian women medical doctors,
lawyers, and hightech engineers, and applies a critical lens to the idea of diversity employment.