Suad Joseph (Arabic: سعاد جوزيف; born 6 September 1943) received her doctorate in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1975.

[8][9] The organization is an international collective of sixteen scholars whose work focuses on families and youth in Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt and their diasporas.

AMEWS is an organization of scholars and individuals with an interest in women and gender studies in the context of the Middle East, North Africa, including their diasporic communities.

AMEWS works to organize and sponsor conferences, workshops and symposia that encourage research and collaboration in these areas.

It produces the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS), which is published triennially by Indiana University Press.

According to their website, JMEWS is "a venue for region-specific research informed by transnational feminist, gender, and sexuality scholarship," and encourages editors to submit work "that employs historical, ethnographic, literary, textual, and visual analyses and methodologies.

Collaborations have included projects on water, law, gender, genetics, biotechnology, the environment, Middle East studies and other interdisciplinary research.