About
Dr Afaf Jabiri is a Palestinian refugee, feminist scholar, and activist whose work bridges academic research with political and grassroots engagement. She is a Senior Lecturer in Global Development at the University of East London, where she co-directs the Centre for Social Justice and Change. Dr. Jabiri brings an interdisciplinary approach that draws on sociology, history, international law, and decolonial feminist theory. Her research focuses on intersectionality, settler colonialism, and women’s political agency, particularly in Palestinian refugee contexts. Her recent book, Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan: Decolonising the Geopolitics of Displacement, offers a critical feminist analysis of forced displacement under settler colonial conditions. Her forthcoming book, Living Palestine, uses storytelling as a decolonial method to trace the lives, memories, and political legacies of Palestinian refugee women.
