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Biographies of Members of the Jury Zulaikha Abd ar-Rahman Abu Risha (Jordan) Abu Risha studied Arabic
Literature at Jordan University and is preparing her doctoral thesis on
„Women in Arabic Feminist Literature” at the University of Exeter (UK). Abu
Risha also studied educational science and administration. As an expert in
feminism she is known for her Gender-Studies. She is director of the
Centre for Women’s Studies in Amman, Founder and Director of the feminist
publishing house al-Warraqat li-d-dirasat wal-buhuth, chief editor of the
educational Magazine
al-Mu’allim/at-talib and
of Magallat Funun, an art
journal published by the Jordanian ministry of culture. She is columnist
writer in the Jordanian daily ar-Ra’i and writes for many other Arabic
newspapers. Many of the things she writes is provocative and arouses public
debates, such as her demand to change the Arabic language from an „absent“
language into a language without feminine/masculine gender. Publications: Language
and Gender; Women in pre-Islamic Poetry: Ibn Muqbil; Women in
the Modern Literature of Jordan, The Gate to the Square by Sahar
Khalifa: A Feminist Reading. She has also written children books :The
two Jewels; The Horn of pepper; Sorry,
Mum; To Whom belongs this soft Voice, Bah
bah?. She has also written a research on children’s literature: Attempt
of a theory (in print). Zulaikha Abu Risha is
a poetress, too. Some of her anthologies: The Hiding moves softly away
(tarashaqa l-khifa’); Gypsy of the Water (Ghagar al-ma’); The Singing of the Priests and Advice of the
Feathers (Taratil al-kahina wa-wasaya ar-rish); Unrest: Stories of
Victory and Sleeping (al-bilbal: Abwab fi l-magd wa-l-kara). Abu Risha was
consulted as Jury for many prise competitions of Literature and children’s
books. She is member of the Jordanian Association of Writers. She was awarded
the Prise of the Jordanian University for her anthology of short stories: In
Jail 1987. Siham Muhammad Abd as-Salam
al-Barghouthi
(Palestine) Al-Barghouti is
general director of rural development in the Palestinian Ministry of local
administration. She is member in the political office of the Palestinian
democratic Union and Head of the Palestinian Women’s Worker’s Union. Her
greatest services are her engagement in the involvement of women in political
activism. 1973 she contributed to founding voluntary youth working groups.
Women were treated equally with men and were encouraged to take an important
role in the resistance against occupation. Al-Barghouthi is committee member
of the General Union of
Palestinian Women, committee member of the professional group responsible for
women’s affairs (in Ramallah). She led many workshops and seminars on the
political and social role of women. Because of her
political engagement in the „Popular Front for the liberation of Palestine“
Mrs al-Barghouthi was not allowed to leave the country for ten years. She was
prohibited to continue her work. She was under house arrest for 2,5 years and
was taken prisoner and held in the women’s Jail at ar-Ramlah for another 2,5
years. Muhammad Fa’iq (Egypt) Secretary general of
the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) in the headquarter in Egypt, an
NGO, which functions as consultant of the The Economic and Social Council of
the UN. M. Fa’iq ist director and owner of the publishing house Dar
al-mustaqbal al-arabi. He is active member in many human rights organizations
in Egypt and in other countries of the Arab World. He was in many influential
positions: he was Information Minister, Minister of State for foreign
Affairs, Minister for National Orientation, personal Secretary and Advisor of
President Gamal Abdul Nasser for Africa and Asia, elected member of the
Egyptian Parliament, and he was appointed to the foreign Affairs of the
Soviet Union. M. Fa’iq was heading
the embassy on the summit of the African Union, representing the Position of President Nasser and
the Egyptian government. He represented Egypt also on the forth Commission of
the General Assembly of the UNO between 1962 and 1965. He took part in the
African liberation movement for independence 1953-1971. He was founding
member of the solidarity movement of the African and Asian People. Muhammad
Fa’iq did a lot of diplomatic travelling, where he represented Egypt and
often the president personally at conferences and official meetings. Fa’iq published
several books on Africa and the human rights. His most famous one is: Gamal
Abdul Nasser and the African Revolution. Hussain Shaban (Iraq/London) Legal consultat,
researcher and author, specialized in international law and human rights. Dr.
Shaban was born in Iraq, an-Nagaf al-Ashraf in 1945. He studied economics and
political sciences in Baghdad (1967/68) and continued his studies in Prague,
where he took a Master degree and PhD in law (1976/1977). Dr. Shaban has been
for many years chairman of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) in
London. He was founding member of the Arab Commission („Arab Commission for the struggle
against Zionism and Rassism“) that was initiated to support the UN Security
Council Resolution 3379 of the General Assembly 1975 (in which Zionism was
equated with racism) and was its secretary general between 1986 and 1989. Today Dr. Shaban is
working as lawyer and outside lecturer at the University of London. He is
engaged in many organizations and societies, for example the
Euro-mediterranean human rights network in Kopenhagen, he is committee member
of the Centre for Freedom of Press in the Near East and Northern Africa
(London), the International Federation of Journalists (in Prague), the Arab
Lawyer’s Union (Cairo), and the International Union of Lawyers (London). In
the mid-eighties he and his colleagues published the Iraqi left wing Journal
al-Minbar in exile in Lebanon (Beirut). Dr. Shaban wrote many
books, some of which are: A Panorama of the Golf
War (1995); Power
and the Principle of Humanitarian Intervention (2000);
The Trial (1992); An Introduction into
International Law and Human Rights (2002); Zionism
Today and International Law (1985); The Palestinian Intifada and the
Human Rights (1991); The
Open City (2001); Cartago
must be Destroyed (1985); America and the Islam
(1987); Islam and the Human Rights (2001). In the field of literature he wrote: Away Unseen by Spyers
(1994); al-Gawahiri (1997); Abu
Kati’: On the Riversides of Sad Sarcasm (1998). He
also translated books, for example Memoires of a Zionist (1986). Khalil Shikaki (Palestine) Dr. Shikaki is one of
the most internationally respected expert on the Middle East conflict. 1975
he took his degree in political
science from the American University in Beirut and continued his postgraduate
studies in the USA, Columbia University, New York (PhD in 1985). He was
visiting professor in several universities: Columbia University (1986-1997) University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2001-), al-Najah University in Nablus (1986-97) and
as associated professor at the al-Najah University in Nablus (19986-1997) and
Bir Zeit University (2001-..). From 1993 to 1999 Shikaki was editor-in-chief of the scientific
Magazine al-Siyasa al-filastiniyya and director of the Center for Palestine
Research and Studies in Nablus (1993-1995) and from 1993 to 1999 supervisor
of the scientific projects at the centre. From 1996 to 1997 he was Dean of
Scientific Research at the the al-Najah University in Nablus. Since 2000 he
is director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research
(PSR) in Ramallah. At the time Dr. Shikaki is staying in Washington DC as
visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. Some of
Recent Publications: Public Opinion Surveys: Conducted more than 75 polls among Palestinains in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since 1993. The Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Process: Oslo and the Lessons of Failure (East Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2002), co-editor with Roberth
Rothstein and Moshe Ma’oz. “Determinants
of Reconciliation and Compromise among Israelis and Palestinians,” Journal
of Peace Research (March 2002), pp.185-202. "Peace Now or Hamas
Later," Foreign Affairs (July/August 1998), pp. 29-43. The Palestinian Refugee Problem
and the Right of Return, with
Joseph Alpher (Cambridge: Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, 1998) "The Future of the Peace
Process and Palestinian Strategies," Journal of Palestine Studies
(Autumn 1996), pp. 82-88. “Israeli Elections, the Peace
Process, and Palestinian Options,” al-Siyasa al-Filastiniyya, (Summer
1996) in Arabic. “The Peace Process, National Reconstruction, and Transition to
Democracy in Palestine,” Journal of Palestine Studies (Winter 1996). "Palestinian-Jordanian
Relations and the Process of National Reconstruction," al-Siyasa
al-Filastiniyya (Spring 1996) in Arabic. “The Taba Interim Agreement:
Review and Evaluation,” al-Siyasa al-Filastiniyya, (Fall 1995) in
Arabic. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank: Future Political and
Administrative Links, (Jerusalem: Palestinian Academic
Society for the Study of International Affairs, 1994, in Arabic. |