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Nehad Khader
Grad Date:05/31/2011
nk325@hoyamail.georgetown.edu
Nehad Khader was born in Philadelphia to Palestinian refugee parents and was raised between Philly, Damascus, and Baghdad. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Temple University in 2007, and holds degrees in sociology, with a concentration on race and racism, and in English literature, with a focus on Black American literature and media. She also did research on Arabs in American media and the emerging wave of Palestinian film. At Temple she received the Social Justice Prize, the Diamond Award, and the Robboy Sociology Scholarship. In Philadelphia, Nehad was an active member of the art and education community, and was invited to speak on Palestinian identity and media at the Black Lily Film Festival, Bryn Mawr College, and the University of Pennsylvania, among others.
After graduating she worked as Program Coordinator at Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, an Arab arts education organization, where she researched thematical programs and applied methods of arts education. In 2008 she won the Leeway Art and Change Grant and undertook a research project on Palestinian women traditional artists in Philadelphia. This project culminated in an art exhibit, which she curated at the Philadelphia Folklore Project, and an article in the magazine Works in Progress. She is currently working on a project with a professor of anthropology of education concerning the War on Terror as it has manifested itself in public schools, in which she has interviewed Palestinian high school students about identity formation and conflict in the midst of the War.
At Georgetown Nehad's concentration is Culture and Society, and her interests lie primarily in artistic and creative movements as they relate to social, political, and personal processes in the Arab world.
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