Frances Hasso

Frances is an interdisciplinary transnational feminist scholar with a PhD in Sociology, an MA in Arab Studies, and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies. Her scholarship has substantially focused on social and political movements in the Arab world, with an emphasis on Palestine. Her work also includes a series of journal articles on post-2011 Egypt in feminist, geography, and Middle East journals. She is emerita editor of Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (2015-2018). Her books include Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan (Syracuse 2005); Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East (Stanford 2011), focused on Egypt and the United Arab Emirates; Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke 2016, co-edited), with a chapter on Bahrain; and Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction and Death in Modern Palestine (Cambridge 2022).