Arab Women in Management and Leadership Stories from Israel

by Arar, Khalid; Shapira, Tamar; Azaiza, Faisal; Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9781137032935
• ISBN10: 1137032936
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-02-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Arab Women's Management and Leadership explores the life-stories of 22 pioneer Arab women who have forged their path to management and leadership in education and welfare, overcoming challenges imposed by a patriarchal society that sees female leadership as a threat. This revolutionary volume traces sources of their success and identifies their coping strategies. The women's stories reveal their perceptions of a rich and multi-faceted social world, relating to private, professional and public spheres. These stories enrich existing scholarship by illuminating Arab women managers' perspectives, a topic largely overlooked in current knowledge formation concerning women in leadership and management.

Author Biography

Khalid Arar is a senior lecturer at the Center for Academic Studies, and principal of the Jaljulia Home of Education and Sciences High School. His studies focus on Education Administration, Higher Education, Career Development and Personnel Evaluation and the influence of issues of equity and diversity on Education Leadership. Arar has published numerous chapters, papers and books in Hebrew, Arabic and English. His last coauthored published book Jordanization of Higher Education among the Arabs in Israel appeared in Hebrew, published by the Hebrew University.Tamar Shapira is a researcher and colleague at the Jewish-Arab Center, University of Haifa, Israel. She serves as a lecturer at the Gordon Academic College of Education, Haifa. Her research focuses on Women in the Arab Education System in Israel; Arab Women Managers in the Public Services; and Women's Leadership.Faisal Azaiza is the head of the School of Social Work, in the University of Haifa's Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences. Previously, he was the head of the University's Jewish-Arab Center and mayor of the municipality of Daburiya. Azaiza is a member of the Council for Higher Education in Israel, participating in its financing and planning committee. His research interests include Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel, especially in educational contexts, and the Health and Welfare of the Arab Population in Israel, its Social Needs, Health Problems and Service Delivery Systems. Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz is professor emeritus of Social-Educational Psychology at the University of Haifa in Israel. She graduated from the University of Texas, Austin, USA. Her research interests include Gender, Religion and Women's Leadership among Arab and Jewish populations with various ethnic and religion backgrounds. Her research work focuses on Arab and Jewish life in a multicultural institution (The University of Haifa) and in multicultural cities (Acre and Haifa) in Israel. She employs Participatory Action Research (PAR). Hertz-Lazarowitz has published numerous chapters, papers and books in Hebrew and English.

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