Lina AbiRafeh is an Arab-American feminist activist and author who works gender issues in development and humanitarian contexts. She has worked for various United Nations agencies and international non-governmental organizations and was the executive director of the Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University.
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| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University (Master's) London School of Economics (Ph.D) |
| Thesis | Afghanistan gozargah: Discourses on gender-focused aid in the aftermath of conflict (2008) |
She is the author of Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan.
Early life and education
editAbiRafeh was born to a Palestinian pharmacist mother and a Lebanese father and spent time in Saudi Arabia while growing up.[1][2]
AbiRafeh has a master's degree in international economics and development from the Johns Hopkins University.[3]
She completed her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008, her thesis focusing on gender based violence in humanitarian aid in conflict and post-conflict zones.[3]
Career
editAbiRafeh has worked with various United Nations and humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Lebanon, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea.[3] For seven years,[4] starting in 2015, she was the executive director of the Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University.[5]
She has critiqued western obsession with how Afghan women dress.[6][7] She has also critiqued the humanitarian aid system for neglecting the needs of men and drawn links between that neglect and increased rates of gender based violence in Afghanistan.[8]
Awards
editIn 2019 she was identified by Apolitical Group as one of the top most influential people in gender equity policy.[9]
Selected publications
edit- Lina AbiRafeh, Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan: The Politics and Effects of Intervention, 2009. ISBN 978-0786445196[10][11][12]
- Lina AbiRafeh, Freedom on the Frontlines: Afghan Women and the Fallacy of Liberation, 2022, ISBN 978-1476689425
- Lina AbiRafeh, Lessons from Gender-focused International Aid in Post-Conflict Afghanistan...Learned?, 2005, ISBN 3-89892-413-0[13][14]
- Lina AbiRafeh, Freedom is Only Won From the Inside: Domestic Violence in Post-Conflict Afghanistan, 2006, The Peaceful Families Project[ISBN missing][15][16]
References
edit- ^ Anneau, Manon (2019-09-26). "Shape Your Future with Lina Abirafeh, Executive Director of the Arab Institute for Women". Impakter. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
- ^ "NAYA| Lina Abirafeh: An influential researcher in gender policy". annahar.com. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
- ^ a b c "Lina Abirafeh". The Conversation. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ "Lina AbiRafeh, PhD - SheSource Expert - Women's Media Center". womensmediacenter.com. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
- ^ "Lina AbiRafeh". Middle East Institute. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
- ^ Sienkiewicz, M. (2016). The Other Air Force: U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11. United States: Rutgers University Press.
- ^ Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor. (2016). United States: University of California Press.
- ^ Skaine, R. (2008). Women of Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era: how lives have changed and where they stand today. United Kingdom: McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers.
- ^ "The World's 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy". Apolitical. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ Walter, B. (2017). Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan: In a Time of Western Intervention. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
- ^ Muslim Women in War and Crisis: Representation and Reality. (2010). United States: University of Texas Press.
- ^ Smith, JuliaH. (Dec 2012). "BOOK REVIEW Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan: The Politics and Effects of Intervention" (PDF). Journal of Peace, Conflict & Development. 19.
- ^ Hudson, Natalie Florea. Gender, human security and the United Nations: Security language as a political framework for women. Routledge, 2009.
- ^ Brodsky, Anne E. "Multiple psychological senses of community in Afghan context: Exploring commitment and sacrifice in an underground resistance community." American Journal of Community Psychology 44.3 (2009): 176-187.
- ^ True, Jacqui. The political economy of violence against women. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- ^ Suhrke, Astri. "Reconstruction as modernisation: the ‘post-conflict’project in Afghanistan." Third World Quarterly 28.7 (2007): 1291-1308.