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is a lecturer at the Department of Behavioral Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev where she recently completed her PhD with a dissertation on Deconstructing and Reshaping Identity among Young Bedouin Women (publication forthcoming in Hebrew and English). Kassem’s research interest is focused on gender, education, public health and memory. Among her publications are articles on Women’s health custom made (2000), Knowledge, Action and Resistance: The selective use of pre-natal screening among Bedouin Women of the Negev (2001), or Theory and Criticism: Urban Palestinian Women Narrating the Naqba (2006). A book manuscript under the title Allah, al-Mlik, al-Watan – The sacred Triangle: Women’s Images in Jordanian Textbooks is forthcoming. Kassem has been engaged in conflict resolution training and projects. Together with Dan Bar On of Ben-Gurion University, she has been a co-facilitator for a project of a group of Jewish and Palestinian Israeli students called Co-existence Through Life Story Narrative. She has also served as coordinator for the project Two Conflicts, Four Countries that involved university teachers of History from Turkey, Greece, Palestine and Israel. Currently she is the co-facilitator of a group of Jewish and Palestinian women from Jerusalem called Jerusalem Women as Catalysts for Peace.