Hope is a Woman's Name
$43.63
- Paperback
456 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2022
Summary
At birth, it was only Amal’s father who looked at her and said, “I see hope in her face. I want to call her ‘Amal’—meaning ‘Hope’—in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her.”
The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society and an indigenous Bedouin in a Jewish state, Amal Elsana came into this world fighting for her right to exist. Today, she is a key shaper of public opinion on Israel’s marginalized minorities.
Hope is a Woman’s Name tells of Amal’s journey navig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912600113 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1912600110 |
| Author: | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj |
| Publisher: | Halban Publishers |
| Imprint: | Halban Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 134mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Amal Elsana Alh'jooj
Amal is a founder of several NGOs, including the Arab-Jewish Centre for Equality, Economic Empowerment and Cooperation, and the recipient of many international prizes. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), she was included in Genius 100 Visionaries of the Future (2017); and awarded the New Israel Fund’s Human Rights Award (2013).
Amal has a PhD in Social Work from McGill University and a post-doctorate from the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy in the Women Public Policy program.
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