WRITING
Heidi’s writings and research delve deeply into global women’s rights discourses and Middle Eastern history, offering insightful analysis and impactful storytelling.
Publications
Online
“Joining the Quest for Justice,” Times of Israel The Blogs, July 30, 2025
“Silencing the Screams One Year Later,” Times of Israel The Blogs, November 28, 2024.
“A plea from the Daughters of Abraham,” Times of Israel, February 23, 2024.
“A Plea from Two Daughters of Abraham: Reclaim Our Lost Humanity,” The Fair Observer, February 16, 2024.
“Rape is Not Resistance: Women’s Rights in a Post-Oct. 7 World,” Opinion Section, Newsweek, Nov. 29, 2023.
“The Overreaching of women’s rights that stands to benefit us all,” Philanthropy News Digest Blog, April 13, 2023.
“The Most Invaluable Lives of Them All,” The WVoice, July 17, 2020.
“To Defy Her Destiny a Woman Must Be Heard,” December 23, 2019, Chime for Change, an article curated and edited by Mariane Pearl.
“#Ana_Kaman,” Tel Aviv Notes, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 10, 2018, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University.
“The Breadwinner: When Girls Will Be Boys,” The WVoice, December 16, 2017.
“The Struggle of Being a New Mother When the World is on Fire,” Working Mother, August 17, 2017.
“The Challenge to Change in the Gaza Strip,” The WVoice, January 17, 2017.
“Embracing shame: turning honour on its head,” Open Democracy, February 14, 2014.
“The Bride of the Sea,” The WVoice, August 18, 2015.
“Shame and honour re-appropriated: women finding their voices,” Open Democracy, March 8, 2013.
“Uncertainty for the Future of the Moroccan Women’s Movement,” Open Democracy, March 1, 2012.
“The Right to Choose: the Women of al-Qa’ida,” Tel Aviv Notes, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 9, 2012, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University.
"Women of the Middle East: the Jihad Within," Tel Aviv Notes: Special Edition, Vol. 5, No. 3, March 8, 2011, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University.
Author’s Page, Palestine-Israel Journal.
“The Power of Film to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence,” Palestine-Israel Journal, New Generation: Hope for Change, Vol. 26 Nos. 1&2, 2021.
“#MeToo and the History of ‘Hashtag Feminism’ in the MENA Region,” IE Mediterranean Yearbook, 2019.
The Kurdish Women of Turkey: Building a Nation, Struggling for Gender Parity, a monograph, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, 2017.
“The Kurdish Women in Turkey: Nation Building and the Struggle for Gender Parity,” in: Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland, Ofra Bengio, ed., (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014) pp. 175-89.
“Women of the Middle East: the Jihad Within,” Palestine-Israel Journal, Women and Power, Vol. 17, No. 3&4, 2011.
Film Review, "Encounter Point: The Trials and Tribulations of Grassroots Peace Activism," Palestine-Israel Journal, Human Security, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2008.
Book Review, “Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories by Mike Berry and Greg Philo,” Palestine-Israel Journal, The Economic Dimension: Past, Present and Future, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2007.