Henriette Dahan Kalev is a research and lecturer at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. In 2000 she was awarded with The Jewish American Congress and The Women’s Lobby for Women Who Made a Difference and Change.

She was born in Morocco in 1947 and grew up in Israel. She read Political Science at the Hebrew University in 1976-1978 and did an M.A. on Intellectuals in Politics between the two WWs at the Hebrew University, 1979-1982. Her Ph.D topic is on Political Protest of the Black Panthers in Israel at the Hebrew University, completed in 1991. She is a Lecturer then Reader at the Ben Gurion University since 1996.    

Henriette Dahan Kalev is based at the Department of Interdisciplinary studies at Ben Gurion University. In 2004-2011 she founded and was the first chair of the Gender Studies Program. Her main research interest is in political theory and in gender and politics. She is the co-author of Palestinian Activism in Israel: A Bedouin Woman Leader in a Changing Middle East (joint author,  2011); Gender Sex, Politics ( joint author, 1999) [Hebrew] and the co-editor of A-Mitiot (A-Mythical): Gender in Jewish Sources, (2012) [Hebrew];  and Women in the Negev (2005) [Hebrew]. She has also more than 45 publications in academic and refereed journals.

Henriette Dahan Kalev is a frequent contributor to the newspapers and commentator on radio and television on women gender and political affairs in Israel. She is frequently invited to consult governmental institutions on gender and political affairs as well as on the ethnic and national conflicts in Israel.

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Marginalized categories in western democracies.

Gender in the Middle East and north Africa

Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging

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Recent publication: Palestinian Activism in Israel: A Bedouin Woman Leader in a Changing Middle East

Present research:  Radical democracy, a critic.

Maghrebi women in Europe:  Coping strategies

"Liberté, Egalité, Islamité:  Coping Strategies of Women Immigrant from the Maghreb in France", journal of Women Studies International forum, Volume 35, Issue 5, September–October 2012,  354–361http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539512001008

2012, "Sara Was Butch" Journal of Lesbian Studies, 16:2, 1-18http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10894160.2012.627285

2012, “Narrative of A Worker.” Gender, Work and Organization, 19:2, 188-204 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/gwao/2012/00000019/00000002/art00005

2007, “Breaking Their Silence: Mizrahi Women and the Israeli Feminist Movement.” Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews XXII, 193-209.

2006, "Officers as Educators: The Ex-Military in the Israeli School System.” Israel Affairs 12.2, 268-283

2004, “Female Genital Mutilation and Human Rights.” Sex Roles 51, 339-348.

2001, “Tensions in Israeli Feminism: The Mizrahi Ashkenazi Rift.” Women’s Studies International Forum 24, 1-16. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539501002060

2001, “You are So Pretty, You Don’t Look Moroccan.” Israeli Studies 6, 1-14.file:///C:/Users/Henriette/Dropbox/%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%91%D7%A5%20%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D%20%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99/Israel%20Studies--You%27re%20So%20Pretty--You%20Don%27t%20Look%20Moroccan%20%282%29.htm

Key Words:

Democracy today, marginalized social categories, Maghrebi women, Palestinian activism, Bedouin of the Negev