Annelies Moors

Annelies Moors studied Arabic at the University of Damascus and anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, where she graduated in 1984 and obtained her PhD degree in 1992.

Her regional specialisation is the Arab world and West Asia; from the early 1980s on, she has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Palestine; later she also did fieldwork in Lebanon, Jordan, and Yemen.

She is the author of Women, Property, and Islam: Palestinian Experiences 1920-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), co-editor of Discourse and Palestine (Het Spinhuis, 1995), and has published in edited volumes and journals on such varied topics as gendering Orientalism, debating Islamic family law, writing life stories, visualizing the nation-gender nexus, and wearing gold.

In 2001 she was appointed as Professor and ISIM Chair at the University of Amsterdam.

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