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Nahla Abdo is a Palestinian-Canadian academic and sociologist, who has been a member of the faculty at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada since 1991. She received her Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 1989.

Professor Abdo's research focuses on gendered, racialized and classed colonialism and women in the Middle East, with focus on Palestinian women. She employs an anti-colonial, anti-imperialist feminist methodology and has published ten books as either author, co-author, or co-editor.

These include 2002's Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation co-edited with Ronit Lentin and 2018's An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba co-edited with Nur Masalha.