Lisa Taraki (Arabic: ليزا تراكي, Persian: لیزا تاراکی; born 1948)[1] is an Afghan-born Palestinian journalist, teacher and sociologist.
[1] In her years in the U.S. she came in contact with the student-led anti-war movement against the Vietnam War and with Iranian students opposing the Shah's regime in Iran.
Additionally, international faculty were obliged to sign a document condemning PLO as a terrorist organization to obtain work permits from Israeli authorities.
[12] Taraki's research has focused on urban social history, the Palestinian national movement, gender in the Middle East, and on informal justice systems.
The book is based on data from a survey of 2,000 Palestinian households in 19 communities in the West Bank and Gaza conducted in the summer of 1999.
The book was favorably reviewed by Annelies Moors who wrote that "[t]hese contributions point to the insights one can gain from household surveys when gender-sensitive questions on labour, education, marriage, and so on are included."
Maya Rosenfeld found the book a "timely addition to the disturbingly slender body of academic research on Palestinian society" during the current phase of Israeli military occupation.