Authors

Sarah Ihmoud

Sarah Ihmoud is a Chicana-Palestinian anthropologist who works to uplift the lived experiences, histories, and political contributions of Palestinian women and Palestinian feminism. She is a founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, an executive board member of Insaniyyat, the Society of Palestinian Anthropologists, and is assistant professor of anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.

ARTICLES BY Sarah Ihmoud

  • The Cunning of Gender Violence in Israel’s War on Palestinian Women

    The Cunning of Gender Violence in Israel’s War on Palestinian Women

    Today, we are asked to watch, over and over again, the mass violation of Palestinian bodies, including sexualized torture, to consume testimonies of Palestinian women being raped while in Israeli military custody, to digest the public displays of women’s underwear in the bombed out streets and h..

  • Sheikh Jarrah: The Question Before Us

    Sheikh Jarrah: The Question Before Us

    The first time I heard the story of Sheikh Jarrah was from a child who had been displaced from her home along with her family in 2009. I was a young (and admittedly green) anthropologist spending my first months in “the field,” trying to comprehend what was happening in Jerusalem. The little gir..