Nadia Hijab (Arabic: نادية حجاب, romanized: Nādya ḥijāb, [naːdja ħidʒaːb]) is a Palestinian political analyst,[1] author, and journalist who comments frequently on human rights and the Middle East, and the situation of the Palestinians in particular.
Hijab was born in Aleppo, Syria to Palestinian Arab parents,[2] Wasfi Hijab and Abla Nashif, but grew up in neighboring Lebanon, where she earned a BA and MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut.
[3] During her years of study in Beirut, Hijab worked as a journalist, but she left Lebanon after the onset of the Lebanese Civil War.
She traveled first to Qatar, and then to London, England, where she became the editor-in-chief of Middle East Magazine[4] and appeared frequently in the media as a commentator on Middle East affairs.
[5] In 2010, she co-founded Al-Shabaka,[6][7][8] a virtual think tank bringing together over 200 Palestinian thinkers and writers from all over the world.