Far removed from herding sheep in the Holy Land, where she became a prominent Israeli Bedouin feminist, Amal Elsana-Alh’jooj now heads the International Community Action Network (ICAN) at McGill University in Montreal.
Her path to the French-Canadian city is an unlikely personal journey: After shepherding as a five-year-old Muslim girl outside her sun-scorched, ramshackle Bedouin village in the Negev desert, she eventually received her PhD in social work at McGill and now speaks widely in international forums while also pursuing a postdoc at Harvard University.
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