Sara Ababneh

Carnegie Centennial Fellow (Fall 2016) 

Dr. Sara Ababneh is Assistant Professor at the University of Jordan’s Center for Strategic Studies. After receiving a BSc in Politics and Economics from Earlham College in Indiana and an MScEcon in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystywth, Dr. Ababneh earned her DPhil in Politics and International Relations from the St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford in 2010.  Her dissertation topic focused on female Islamists in Hamas in occupied Palestine and the Islamic Action Front in Jordan. Dr. Ababneh has conducted research on Mandate Palestine, gender and Islamism, and labor movements. 

Currently, she is studying the popular Jordanian protest movement (al-Hirak al-Sha‘bi al-Urduni). While in residency at the MEI she worked on finishing the first draft of her book on the Hirak.