Please join the Racial and Ethnic Politics Workshop as they host Dr. Eman Abdelhadi, Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Session title and description forthcoming.
Eman Abdelhadi is an Palestinian-Egyptian American public intellectual and community organizer. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her academic work focuses on American Muslim communities and specifically women’s participation and exclusion in these communities. She focuses on intersections of gender, sexuality, politics and religion. Eman was born in Columbia, Missouri. Her mother is from Egypt and her father is from Palestine, and they met in the United States. Eman spent her early childhood in Egypt while also living shortly in Saudi Arabia. After her father passed away, her mother, sister and her moved back to Missouri when she was nine years old. Eman grew up in a diverse and tight-knit Muslim community. She grew up in a revivalist Muslim household that emphasized the technical observance of Islam, and tended to have an all or nothing interpretation. The Muslim community Eman grew up in was very strict, especially in terms of gender. She remembers the community fearing losing their children and having them stray from Islamic values, but that most of this fear was projected on the girls in the community. She was also very active in the Muslim community and regularly attended services at her local mosque.
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