Minds of the Movement

An ICNC blog on the people and power of civil resistance

Wafa Eben-Beri

Wafa Eben-Beri is a social activist and currently an Obama Foundation scholar at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago (USA). She is the former Head of Government Policy at the Economic Development Authority for Minorities in the Ministry for Social Equality in Israel. In a prior role, as the first and youngest woman to run the Bedouin volunteer tent at the Arab Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment, and Cooperation (AJEEC), Wafa managed a team of program coordinators and volunteers to create shared spaces for Arab and Jewish-Israeli students to live while preserving their respective identities and cultures.

Writings from Wafa Eben-Beri

Articles

Movement Commentary

A Decade after the Arab Spring, Reflections on a Little-Known Bedouin Youth-Led Movement

The Al Hrak al-Shababe movement gained traction largely thanks to its strategy of putting solidarity and unity first. In fact, the movement’s list of accomplishments—both concrete and abstract—is compelling. Alongside successfully thwarting the Prawer plan, the movement also re-examined its internal inequalities as a necessary step to resisting external discrimination and oppression. […]

by Wafa Eben-Beri
February 05, 2020