Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud


Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud is a Palestinian writer, poet and professor. Since 2008, she has been a professor of Political Science at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina. Daoud also works as a member of the Al-Shabaka Palestinian policy thinktank.

Early life and education

Daoud was born in the Melkite Greek Catholic village of Mi'ilya in Israel's Western Galilee area. She earned her BA in political science and international relations from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her MA in international development and social change from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Daoud obtained her Ph.D. in political science from Jerusalem's Hebrew University.

Career

Daoud worked as a political advisor and assistant for a Palestinian Knesset member Hashim Mahameed from 1996 to 2003. After this, she began work in the United States, where she was a visiting scholar at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. She also held a postdoctoral position at Pomona College in Claremont, California, as a Mellon Post Doctorate Fellow. While in Claremont, she worked as a visiting assistant professor at Harvey Mudd College.
Daoud has published numerous academic and artistic works in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. She has written for the avant-garde Arabic literary magazine Al Adab based in Beirut, and has published four volumes of Arabic poetry and literature. Daoud was commissioned by the Washington, D.C. Shakespeare Theatre Company to write original poetry for their March 2005 performance of The Tempest. In 2009, her book Palestinian Women and Politics and Israel, considered by Ghada Talhami as a 'pioneering' study in its field, was published by the University of Florida Press.

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