Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud (Arabic: سهير أبو عقصة داود) is a Palestinian writer, poet and professor. Since 2008, she has been a professor of Political Science at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina. Daoud also works as a member of the Al-Shabaka Palestinian policy thinktank.[1][2][3][4]
Daoud was born in the Melkite Greek Catholic village of Mi'ilya in Israel's Western Galilee area.[2][5][6] She earned her BA in political science and international relations from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her MA in international development and social change from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.[3] Daoud obtained her Ph.D. in political science from Jerusalem's Hebrew University.[2][1][3]
Daoud worked as a political advisor and assistant for a Palestinian Knesset member Hashim Mahameed from 1996 to 2003.[3] After this, she began work in the United States, where she was a visiting scholar at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. She also held a postdoctoral position at Pomona College in Claremont, California, as a Mellon Post Doctorate Fellow. While in Claremont, she worked as a visiting assistant professor at Harvey Mudd College.[3][6][1]
Daoud has published numerous academic and artistic works in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. She has written for the avant-garde Arabic literary magazine Al Adab based in Beirut, and has published four volumes of Arabic poetry and literature.[3][1][5] Daoud was commissioned by the Washington, D.C. Shakespeare Theatre Company to write original poetry for their March 2005 performance of The Tempest.[7][6] In 2009, her book Palestinian Women and Politics and Israel, considered by Ghada Talhami as a 'pioneering' study in its field,[8] was published by the University of Florida Press.[1][9]