Adina Friedman
Lecturer, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
Lecturer, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies
Dr. Adina Friedman is a scholar-practitioner in the field of peace and conflict analysis and resolution. She has extensive experience teaching and working on interfaith/intercommunal relations, gender, refugees, and social justice, in the US, Israel, and beyond. She has worked in the field of sustainable development and environmental peacebuilding in Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, and Morocco. She regularly publishes and speaks on these topics.
Dr. Friedman’s regional expertise lies in the Middle East and North Africa. She grew up in Israel, where she spends a few months a year. She has traveled and led immersion study trips to Israel, Palestine (West Bank/Gaza Strip), Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey, and the UAE.
Dr. Friedman has taught graduate and undergraduate courses for twenty years, at GWU’s Elliott School’s Middle East Program; and AU’s School for International Service; and at William and Mary’s School of Government; she currently teaches at the Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in Virginia. She holds a BSc in Biology (SJSU); an MA in History of the Middle East and Africa (TAU); an MS in Peace and Development (Goteborg); and a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from GMU’s Carter School. She speaks English, Hebrew, and Arabic.