The Palestinian women's movement between anticolonial nationalism and ngoization

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Vol. 32 No. 32 (2025): Vol. 32
Monográfico II
265-282
Published: 22-12-2025
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This paper examines anti-colonial feminism in the Arab and Palestinian context, focusing on the
intersection of gender and nation within the Palestinian women’s movement. It explores the transformations of the
movement within the framework of neoliberalism, with particular attention to its NGOization following the Oslo
Accords. The study includes an ethnographic participant observation in a Palestinian women’s organization, the
Arab Women’s Union of Beit Sahour. The aim of the study is, on the one hand, to highlight the current challenges
of sustaining a women-led anti-colonial national resistance and, on the other hand, to explore how this organization
balances its feminist and nationalist mission amid the pressures of international development models.

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Palestinian women Google Schoolar
anti-colonial feminism Google Schoolar
anti-colonial nationalism Google Schoolar
NGOization Google Schoolar

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Lora, & HINDI MEDIAVILLA, N. (2025). The Palestinian women’s movement between anticolonial nationalism and ngoization. Al-Andalus Magreb, 32(32), 265–282. https://doi.org/10.25267/AAM.2025.v32.14

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Nadia HINDI MEDIAVILLA, Universidad de Granada

Professor in the Department of Semitic Studies (UGR), specializing in Arab and Islamic Studies. Among other subjects, she teaches History of Women in Contemporary Arab Societies. She is a member of the Contemporary Arab Studies research group at UGR and a researcher in the R&D project on Legislative Changes in the Maghreb. She completed her doctoral thesis on the relationship between feminism and nationalism in Iraq. She has participated in various social movements in solidarity with Palestine and Iraq and is currently a member of the University Network for Palestine.

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