Towiabah Majdub

Towiabah Majdub is a Palestinian researcher whose work explores the intersections of gender, culture, and emotional life within colonial and patriarchal contexts. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Tel Aviv University, where her doctoral research examined experiences of singlehood among Palestinian women and men in Israel. She also holds an MA in Social Psychology from Bar-Ilan University, focusing on identity work among Palestinian professionals in majority institutions.

Her research engages questions of family, intimacy, and autonomy under structures of political and social constraint. She has held two consecutive postdoctoral fellowships: one at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she examined processes of school choice among Palestinian parents in Israel, and another at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, supported by the Minerva Foundation.

Her current project, The Politics of Choice: The Entry Law to Israel (2003) and the Phenomenology of Singlehood among Palestinians, explores how legal and political restrictions shape emotional dignity, mobility, and belonging.

Towibah’s work combines sociological analysis with deep reflection on lived experience, aiming to understand how individuals negotiate family, love, and social expectations within systems of inequality. Her research seeks to bridge academic knowledge and everyday life, emphasizing the quiet strength, resilience, and creativity that emerge from marginalized communities.