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Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija

Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija is an Israeli Arab education scholar and the first Arab woman to become a professor at an Israeli university.

born 1955First Arab woman professor in IsraelResearch methods in educationCouncil for Higher Education membership

Occupation: educator
Education: Tel Aviv University, University of Georgia

Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija was born in 1955

Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija was born in 1955 and grew up in Tira. She was the fifth of ten children.

She earned a BA in mathematics, biology and chemistry at Tel Aviv University in 1977 and a teaching certificate in mathematics there in 1980. She taught high school in Tira, then completed an MA in research methods in education at Tel Aviv University in 1989. With a grant from the United States embassy for Arab students, she earned a doctorate at the University of Georgia in 1997.

She began at Beit Berl College in 1997 and joined Tel Aviv University as a lecturer in 2000. In 2010 she became a full professor and later headed its School of Education. Her research covers measurement, evaluation and research methods in education.

In 2012 she joined the Council for Higher Education as its first Arab woman member. She resigned in 2016 in protest after Education Minister Naftali Bennett dismissed the council's vice chair, Hagit Messer Yaron. In 2023 she became dean of Sakhnin College for Teacher Education.