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. 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 Arab society.
Dr. Hanan Bishara
Past Speaker