Student Profile: Amal Najami-Abu-Sif
Student Profile: Amal Najami-Abu-Sif
May 2, 2013
Israel Studies, Culture & Jewish Thought, Social Sciences & Humanities
The Jerusalem Post Magazine — Growing up in Haifa, a city where Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis live fairly harmoniously, Amal Najami-Abu-Sif would like to see the freedoms she experienced made available throughout the broader Israeli society.
Currently a Ph.D. candidate in BGU’s Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Department of Social Work, Najami-Abu-Sif completed her master’s thesis at BGU on violence against Bedouin teenage girls.
Amal Najami-Abu-Sif
When selecting a topic for her Ph.D., she considered conducting research on political violence or coexistence relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Instead she chose to examine the controversial issue of honor killings of Arab women.
“Countless women have lost their lives, killed by their husbands, brothers, fathers, and uncles – the very men who are supposed to ‘protect’ the honor of the family,” states Najami-Abu-Sif.
She recently spoke on this topic in New York at a U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.
“I felt like here was the opportunity to make people listen and fight for these women. I wanted to talk about the Arab women in Israel. I am going to fight for those women, for their rights,” she says.
Read more about Amal Najami-Abu-Sif on The Jerusalem Post‘s Web magazine >>
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