Dr. Amal Nazzal publishes the first Palestinian and Arab research in the international peer-reviewed journal "Human Relations"

Dr. Amal Nazzal, a professor at the Department of Business Administration and Marketing at Birzeit University, published a distinguished research paper in Human Relations journal, a prestigious academic journal in business, management, and social sciences. Dr. Nazzal is the first Palestinian and Arab academic researcher to publish in this journal.

The research paper was co-authored with eminent academics and researchers, including Dr. Lindsay Stringfellow, associate professor of marketing and organization studies at the University of Exeter, and Dr. Mairi Maclean, professor of international business and associate dean at the School of Management at the University of Bath, UK.

Adopting an intersectionality framework, the research uncovers how gender, class and settler-colonialism interact and engender dynamics of oppression that shape the lives of Palestinian female activists. The research reveals that these Palestinian female activists were not victims across all categories of difference, as they experience forms of relative privilege caused by their social locations and identities.

Dr. Amal Nazzal maintained that conducting this research was tiring and challenging, yet enjoyable and enriching. In addition to the long hours dedicated to conducting the research, the peer review process took around two years, as the Human Relations’ acceptance rate does not exceed 6-7%.

Dr. Nazzal thanked Birzeit University for facilitating her participation in the annual international conference EGOS: European Group for Organization Studies, held in 2019 at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. During the conference, Dr. Nazzal presented her research idea, the theoretical framework of the research and some of its initial findings.

Established in 1947, Human Relations is a well-established peer-reviewed academic journal, covering research on social relationships in work-related settings. The journal has an impact factor of 5.658, an h-index of 142 and a rank of 2.901, according to the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator. Human Relations is published by SAGE Publications, an A* journal in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List. Journals ranked A* are of the highest category of quality and represent approximately the top 6.8% of listed Business and Management journals.