User:Masriyya/Arab Families Working Group

Founded by Suad Joseph in 2001, the Arab Families Working Group (AFWG) convenes an international collective of sixteen scholars, activists, and practitioners from universities and research centers whose work focuses on families and youth in Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt and their diasporas. AFWG carries out collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research on families and youth in the Arab region. It mentors students and hosts training workshops and seminars to build capacity for a new generation of scholars; works with NGO’s and stakeholders to exchange research findings; and works to transform its research into policy briefs and papers for NGO’s and policy makers working with Arab families and youth. AFWG translates its relevant works into Arabic to ensure its findings are accessible and of use to local publics. It hosts a website to provide practitioners and the public with a number of resources such as the AFWG Scholars Database, curricular resources including syllabi, a 3,000+ item bibliography of scholarship on Arab families and youth, Arabic translations of AFWG publications, interviews with leading scholars in the form of YouTube clips, and summaries of AFWG conferences and workshops. AFWG is co-hosted at the American University in Cairo (Egypt) and the University of California, Davis (USA).

Complete list of AFWG Core Members: Lamis Abu Nahleh, Ibrahim Elnur, Hoda Elsadda, Omnia El Shakry, Barbara Lethem Ibrahim, Islah Jad, Penny Johnson, Suad Joseph, Ray Jureidini, Mona Chemali Khalaf, Eileen Kuttab, Jihad Makhoul, Annelies Moors, Nadine Naber, Martina Rieker, Zeina Zaatari