Dr. Hanan Bishara is an Arab lecturer, scholar, and social activist.
She got her Ph.D. degree from the University of Haifa in Arabic Language and Literature. Her thesis is about the Egyptian writer Nawal al-Sa’dawi.
The title of her thesis is: “Characterization in Nawal Al-Sadawi’s Literary Works from a Gender Point of View: A Diachronic and Synchronic Approach.”
At present, she works as a lecturer at the Academic Arab College for Education in Haifa. Dr. Bishara is well-known as an intellectual, a scholar and an activist for women’s rights in the Arab society.
Besides, she has published several articles and studies in international journals that deal with the women’s status and problems in the Arab world.
In addition, she has attended several conferences in several countries such as Istanbul (Turkey), Budapest (Hungary), London (UK), Paris (France) and Frankfurt (Germany), Rome (Italy), Vienna (Austria), Amsterdam (Holland), Dublin (Ireland), Cambridge (United Kingdom), where she talked about the conditions of the Arab woman in general.