A Virtual Talk With Dr. Isis Nusair: "Agency, Criticality, and Survival: Palestinian, Iraqi, and Syrian Women Refugees"

Dr. Nusair's talk examines the complex, transnational, layered positioning of Iraqi, Syrian, and Palestinian refugee women in Jordan, Germany, Israel and the United States, drawing attention to the crucial connection between displacement, trauma, violence, and resistance. It is based on her current book projects, "Permanent Transients: Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan and the USA and Gendered Narratives of Crossing of Refugees from Syria in Germany." Drawing of her over two decades of experience researching refugee women transnationally and her experience as Middle East and North Africa women's human rights researcher at Human Rights Watch and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, she will also address the ethical and communal relations and commitments in doing such research.