Academic Teaching Staff

DR. GHADA AGEEL

Visiting Professor

Dr. Ghada Ageel is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. She holds a PhD and MA in Middle East Politics from the University of Exeter (UK) and a BA in Education from the Islamic University of Gaza. Her PhD dissertation explored the historic and contemporary role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in addressing durable solutions for Palestinian refugees.

Dr. Ageel has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Faculty of Arts Academic Teaching Staff Award (2024), the Phillips Grant (UK, 2013), the Jerusalem Studies Scholarship from the University of Exeter (2002 and 1999), and the Higher Education Award from the Ministry of Education in Palestine (1996).

Her research interests encompass rights-based approaches to Palestinian refugees, oral history, women's studies, decolonial and postcolonial studies, and the question of Palestine. She is the editor of Apartheid in Palestine: Hard Laws and Harder Experiences and co-editor of Women Voices from Gaza, a seven-book series documenting life in Palestine before and after the 1948 Nakba, as recounted by women who lived through these experiences. Three books from this series—A White Lie (2020), Light the Road to Freedom (2021), and Come, My Children (2023)—have been published by the University of Alberta Press.

Dr. Ageel's work has been widely featured in academic journals, magazines, and prominent media outlets, including Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Middle East Eye, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Hill, CNN, Al-Quds Journal for Academic Research Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Journal of Palestine Studies, among others.