Dr. Ruba Simaan

Holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her doctoral dissertation examined representations of female and male bodies in the novels of six Francophone North-African authors, both men and women. She previously served as a resource development coordinator at a Palestinian feminist organization in Nazareth, the Nazareth Nurseries Institute. Over the past fifteen years, she has developed a professional career in translation, with Arabic as her principal target language.