Nicola Pratt

Nicola Pratt is Associate Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East at the University of Warwick, UK. She is co-author, with Nadje Al-Ali, of What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (University of California Press, 2009) and co-editor, also with Nadje Al-Ali, of Women and War in the Middle East (Zed Press, 2009). She has also written on human rights, civil society and democratization in the Arab world, including Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World (Lynne Rienner, 2007). Her current research is on gendering the politics of in/security in the Middle East, with a focus on Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine and she is joint leader of the Reconceptualising Gender research network between Warwick and Birzeit University (Palestine). Nicola lived for about 7 years in Egypt during the 1990s, during which time she undertook research for her doctoral dissertation on the politics of human rights NGOs. She is a member of Stop the War UK, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.