Barazangi, Nimat Hafez

Visiting Fellow

affiliations

academic staff in

background

educational background

  • PhD in curriculum and instruction, Arabic and Islamic studies, and adult and continuing education from Cornell University 
  • MA in educational psychology and early childhood education from Teachers College, Columbia University
  • BA in philosophy and sociology from Damascus University

awards and distinctions

  • 2005-2006 Fulbright Scholarship to Syria 
  • United Nations Development Program 1999 and 2002 fellowships for Syria
  • Three-year serial Fulbright scholarship for Syria (1995-97)
  • Glock Award from the Department of Education at Cornell University for her 1988 PhD dissertation

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • Monographs, Edited Volumes/Journals, and Encyclopedia Entries
  • Woman’s Identity and the Qur’an: A New Reading. University Press of Florida, (2004).
  • Editor, Islamic Identity and the Struggle for Justice. University Press of Florida, (1996). Arabic Translation under the title Al Kayan Al Islami wa-Al Nidhal min Ajl Al`Adalah. Damascus: Dar Al-Fikr (1999).
  • Arabic Translation Editor, Windows of Faith: Muslim Women’s Scholar-Activists in the North America.
  • Edited by Gisela Webb. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (2000). Under the title: Da`una Natakallam: Mufakirat Amerikiyat Yftahn Nawafith Al-Iman. Dar Al-Fikr (2002).
  • Guest Editor, Religion and Education. The Equilibrium: Issues of Islamic Education in the United States. Volume 25, Number 1 & 2, (Winter) 1998.
  • "Educational Reform" in (1995) Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. John Esposito, Ed. Oxford University Press, New York, Volume I: pp. 420-425.
  • "Religious Education" in (1995) Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. John Esposito, Ed. Oxford University Press, New York, Volume I: pp. 406-411.
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  • On Muslim and Arab Women
  • Silent Revolution of a Muslim Arab American Scholar-Activist. In Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves. Edited by Katherine Bullock (Austin, TX: Texas University Press, 2005: 1-17).
  • Understanding Muslim Women’s Self-Identity and Resistance to Feminism and Participatory Action Research. In Traveling Companions: Feminisms, Teaching, and Action Research. Edited by Mary Brydon-Miller, Patricia Maguire, and Alice McIntyre. Westport, CT: Praeger (2004), 21-39.
  • Commentary on the Iraq Draft Constitution. See "Cornell scholar has role in drafting disputed Iraqi constitution" http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug05/Barazangi.Iraq.html
  • Muslim Women's Education: Between East and West. In Seth Ward, ed. Women in Islamic and Judaic Societies. Holmes and Meier (2004).
  • Domestic Democracy: The Road to National and International Democracy. Proceeding of the 4th  Annual Conference: "Why Democracy and Why Now?" In Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (May 16-17, 2003).
  • Al Huwiyah Al Dhatiyah lil Mar’a Al Muslimah (Self Identity of the Muslim Woman). In Al Mar’s wa-Tarawa As Jadid. Dar Al-Fikr (2003).
  • Muslim Women’s Islamic Higher Learning as a Human Right: Theory and Practice. In Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America. Edited by Gisela Webb. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (2000), 22-47.
  • Arabic translation under the title: Da`una Natakallam: Mufakirat Amerikiyat Yaftahn Nawafith Al-Iman (Dar Al-Fikr, 2002)
  • Self-Identity as a Form of Democratization: The Syrian Experience. In Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements. Edited by Jill M. Bystydzienski and Joti Sekhon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1999), 129-149.
  • Parents and Youth: Perceiving and Practicing Islam in North America. In Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge´, (Ed’s). Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants. Temple University Press (1996): 129-142.
  • The Equilibrium of Islamic Education: Has Muslim women’s Education Preserved the Religion? Religion And Education, 25, 1 & 2, (Winter 1998), 5-19.
  • Muslim Women’s Islamic Higher Learning as a Human Right: The Action Plan. In Muslim Women And the Politics of Participation: Beijing Platform. Edited by Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl. Syracuse University Press (1997), 43-57.
  • Vicegerency and Gender Justice in Islam. In Islamic Identity and the Struggle for Justice. Edited By Nimat Hafez Barazangi, M. Raquibuz Zaman, and Omar Afzal. University Press of Florida (1996): 77-94.
  • Education is the Means to Free Oneself From Shirk (association), American Trust, Indianapolis, Indiana, (1985).
  • Islam and Early Childhood Education: Implication for Women's Education. Al-Ittihad Journal of Islamic Studies, 17, 1, January-March (1980), 33-38.
  • The Position of Women in the Contemporary Muslim World. Al-Ittihad Journal of Islamic Studies, 13, 1, April (1976), 18-25. (See Audio Recording at Cornell University Library).
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  • On Arabic Computerized Curriculum
  • Arabic Self-Learning: A Module of A Research-Based Computerized Curriculum Al-Arabiyya.
  • AJournal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic (Winter, 1999), 32: 23-65.
  • Al Hasub Wa-Ta`allum Al Lugha Al`Arabiyya li-Ghayr Al-Mukhtasiin Biha Bi-Al Tariqa al Tawasulliya. With Ghayda Rebdawi & Safa Haddad. Al-Takddom El-Elmi, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (1998: 24, 52-59).
  • Arabic Language Self- Learning: A Module of A Research-Based Computerized Curriculum, in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing, Cambridge, England, (17-18 April, 1998), 7.2.1 - 7.2.23. http://languagecenter.cornell.edu/arabic/selflearn.
  • Computerized Educational System for Learning: An Application for Arabic Language” (in Arabic: Nidham Tarbawi Hasubi lil Tacalum) Al-Takddom El-Elmi. Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (October-December, 1997), No. 20: 44-53.
  • Using the Internet for Educational and Instructional Purposes (in Arabic: Ist`imal al Internet lil Tarbiyah wa-al Ta`lim) in Proceedings of the Symposium: Informatics in Syria and Contemporary Development. Syrian Informatics Society (March 25-28, 1996), 105-122.
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  • On Muslim and Arab Education in the West
  • The Legacy of a Remarkable Muslim Woman: Sharifa Alkhateeb. The Review.
  • Newsletter/Journal of the Middle East Women’s Studies. Spring/Summer, (2004), xix, 1 & 2: p.19.
  • The Equilibrium in Islamic Education in the US. International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, ISIM Newsletter 5 (June, 2000).
  • Worldview, Meaningful Learning, and Pluralistic Education: The Islamic Perspective. Religion and Public Education, (1993), 20, 1, 2 & 3, pp. 84-98.
  • Particularism and Multi-Cultural Education: Experience of Muslims in the United States. Muslim Education Quarterly, (1993), The Islamic Academy, Cambridge, England, 10, 4: pp. 35-45.
  • North American Muslim Women Speak. NACMW NEWS, 1992, 1, 2: pp. 3 & 5.
  • Islamic Education in the United States and Canada: Conception and Practice of the Islamic Belief System. In Yvonne Haddad, Ed. The Muslims of America. Oxford University Press, New York, (1991), pp. 157-174.
  • Parents and Youth: Perceiving and Practicing Islam in North America. In Earle H. Waugh, Sharon McIrvin Abu-Laban and Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Eds. Muslim Family in North America. Alberta University Press, Edmonton, (1991), pp. 132-147.
  • The Education of North American Muslim Parents and Children: Conceptual Change As a Contribution to Islamization of Education. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. (1990), 7, 3: pp. 385-402.
  • Acculturation of North American Arab Muslims: Minority Relations or Worldview Variations. Journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. London, (1990), pp. 373-390.
  • Arab Muslim Identity Transmission: Parents and Youth. In Arab Studies Quarterly Spring/Summer 1989, pp. 65-82; and in Baha Abu-Laban & Michael W. Suleiman, eds. Arab Americans: Continuity and Change, Belmont, Mass: Association of Arab-American University Graduates. (1989): 65-82.
  • Developing the Islamic Identity: A Parent Perspective. Islamic Horizons, July/August, 1988 26-27.
  • Reflections on Muslim Children's Education, Proceedings of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, Indianapolis, (1978), pp. 87-94. Arabic Translation in Al-Faisal, 7, 78, Sept-Oct, (1983), pp. 113-116. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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  • Action Research Program Development and Evaluation
  • An Ethical Theory of Action Research Pedagogy. Special issue of Action Research Journal on ethics in AR. Mary Brydon-Miller, Davydd Greenwood, Olav Eikeland, eds. (2006), 4 (1): 97- 116.
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  • A Primer in Deploying and Evaluating Action Research. Online PowerPoint program. (2006).
  • Evaluation Model for an Undergraduate Action Research Program (2004) Conference Proceedings: Learning and the World We Want (152-59). (The University of Victoria, November 20-24, 2003) http://www.educ.uvic.ca/learning/proceedings.pdf.
  • Future of Social Sciences and Humanities in Corporate Universities: Curricula, Exclusions, Inclusions, and Voice The Cornell Institute for European Studies Working Papers Series, # 01.1, 12pp., 2001, http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/parfem/workingpaper.htm.
  • Is Language Learning the Object of Literacy Among United States Female Adults Learners?
  • The language and Literacy Spectrum. A Journal of The New York State Reading Association. (Spring 1999), 9: 2-16.
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  • Book Review
  • Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law: Equal Before Allah, Unequal
  • Before Man? (2000) by Shaheen Sardar Ali (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, pp. 358). Muslim Democrat, 5, 1, 2003.
  • Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women’s Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies. (1996) by Mahnaz Afkhami and Haleh Vaziri. AMEWS Newsletter. May 1997.
  • Qur'an and Woman (1992) by Amina Wadud-Muhsin. Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford, England July 1994, pp. 324-326.
  • The Rights of Women in Islam (1992) by Asghar Ali Engineer. Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford,  England. July 1994, pp. 326-328.
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  • Papers Presented, Submitted for Publications, and to be revised (© NHB)
  • Muslim Woman’s Self- Identity and Human Rights. Presented in the “Religion and Human Rights: The Next Agenda.” At Harvard University Kennedy School of Government (May 6–7, 2004).
  • Qura’nic Text: Self-Identity, Interpretations, and Muslim Women’s Participation. Presented In the Panel: Text and Meanings: Views of the Canonical Texts and Interpretation. At the Conference: “Women, Tradition and Change: A Multi-Faith Conference on Contemporary American Religious Practice” held at the Susan and David Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies of the Hebrew College (May 7 and 8, 2000)].
  • Re-Thinking the West, Re-Thinking Religion: Muslim Youth Education in America, November 9-10, 1997, as part of the Symposium: Jews and Muslims in American Society. Sponsored by the Henry Luce Forum in Abrahamic Religions, A collaborative project of the University of Hartford and Hartford Seminary.
  • Exclusion of American Muslim Women from Decision-Making. Presented at the American Muslim Council National Convention: “Muslim America: Becoming a Political Reality.” (April 25- 27, 1997).
  • A Research-Based Computerized Curriculum: An Application of Arabic Language Database. Presented at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, California (July 24, 1995) and at the International Conference on Arabic language and Linguistics, Yarmouk University, Jordan (1996).
  • The Education of Middle East Muslim Women and Identity Development," presented at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. (November, 1991).
  • Asian Muslim Women: Education and Development Strategies," presented at the New York
  • Conference for Asian Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (November, 1991).
  • Conceptual Change and Belief System: Muslims' Education in North America." presented at
  • the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California (March, 1989), and submitted for publications to the AERA Journal Educational Researcher 1990.
  • The Interplay between Faith, Belief System and Thought among Muslim Arab Women.” A
  • revised version of a paper Presented at the Symposium: Feminist Perspectives on Women in the Arabo-Islamic Culture at Cornell University (October, 1988). Submitted for publication to the International Journal of Middle East Studies in 1990.
  • Islamic Education in the United States: Muslim Women and Multicultural Education.
  • Submitted for publication to the Educational Researcher, October 29, 1998.
  • Work in Press
  • Action Research Pedagogy in a New Cultural Setting: The Syrian Experience.
  • A paper to be published in the special issue of Action Research Journal
  • “The praxis of educating action researchers.” Guest Editors” Morten Levin and Ann W. Martin, (September, 2007).
  • Work In Review
  • "Why Muslim Women Need to re-interpret the Qur'an?"
  • http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/05/2.10.05/Chronicle.pdf
  • "Is There a Muslim Diaspora? Promises and Challenges of Islam in Europe, Africa and North America"
  • http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept05/Tibi.visit.fac.html
  • http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/Europe/events/calendar.asp?id=4461
  • http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/html/docs/sept2005.pdf
  • http://www.cornelldailysun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/13/43266850021fb?in archive=1
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