Lisa Taraki is an Afghan-born Palestinian journalist, teacher and sociologist.
12 Facts About Lisa Taraki
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Lisa Taraki is an associate professor of sociology at Birzeit University in the West Bank and former Dean of its graduate students.
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Lisa Taraki is the co-founder of the university's Institute of Women's Studies and founding Director of the doctoral program in social sciences.
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Lisa Taraki has served as the director of the board of trustees for Al Haq.
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Lisa Taraki was born in Afghanistan to an American mother and Afghan father.
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Lisa Taraki studied sociology at Mills College in California and continued her studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo where she earned a Ph.
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Lisa Taraki became an activist and got involved in the legal movement to get the students released from prison.
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In 1994, Lisa Taraki co-founded the Women's Studies program at Birzeit - the first of its kind in West Asia.
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In 2002, Lisa Taraki got involved in the campaign to boycott Israel.
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Lisa Taraki serves on the advisory board of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
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Lisa Taraki's research has focused on urban social history, the Palestinian national movement, gender in the Middle East, and on informal justice systems.
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Lisa Taraki is the editor of Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation published in 2006, a collection of research essays about the everyday lives of Palestinians living under occupation.