# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/islah-jad
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:11:50.067Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/islah-jad"
name: "Islah Jad"
slug: "islah-jad"
description: "Islah Jad is a tenured assistant professor of Gender and Development at Birzeit University. She is also the co-founder and current Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit and a Core Group Member of the Arab Families Working Group. A prominent figure in the Palestinian women’s movement, Jad also helped to establish the Women’s Affair Centre in Gaza and Nablus, Les Amies du Francis, the Child Corner project in el-Bireh, and the WATC. Jad carried out Gender Consultancy for the United Nations Development Programme and was a co-author of the United Nation’s Arab Human Development Report of 2005. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Cairo University, a master's degree in political theory from the University of Nantes, and a Ph.D. in gender and development studies from the University of London."
tagline: "Palestinian academic (gender studies)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Islah_Jad.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-12-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.269222666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump