Professor Emeritus Ismael Abu-Saad

Ismael Abu-Saad is a Professor of Educational Policy and Administration in the Department of Education, founding director of the Center for Bedouin Studies and Development, and the holder of the Abraham Cutler Chair in Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva. He received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota in 2004. His research interests include educational policy and development among indigenous peoples, Palestinian Arab education and higher education, cultural values, social identity in heterogeneous societies, the impact of urbanization on the Negev Bedouin Arab and organizational behavior in multicultural contexts. He has authored and edited over one hundred publications, including the books (co-edited with D. Champagne) Indigenous Education and Empowerment: International Perspectives, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2006 and The Future of Indigenous Peoples: Strategies for Survival and Development, American Indian Studies Center, UCLA, 2003; and (co-authored with K. Abu-Saad, and T. Horowitz) Weaving Tradition and Modernity: Bedouin Women in Higher Education. Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev press, 2011.