Global journal names QU professor 'Sociologist of the Month'
01 May 2021 - 9:07
The Peninsula
Doha: Qatar University’s (QU) Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences at College of Medicine, Dr. Suhad Daher-Nashif, has been named Sociologist of the Month for February 2021 by Current Sociology, the Journal of the International Sociology Association.
Dr. Suhad heads the Wellbeing Committee at the College and heads the Mental Health Research Group at QU-Health.
This selection came based on the new knowledge and the unique analytical contributions she made in her article “Colonial Management of death: to be or not to be dead in Palestine,” published in the journal Current Sociology in August 2020. While speaking about her published article, she said, “This research shed light on the issue of withholding and freezing the bodies of dead Palestinians that Israel practiced during ‘Al-Quds Uprising’ in 2015. The study presents how withholding and freezing the dead influence the Palestinian families politically, psychologically, and socially. This study is part of my postdoctoral research that the Arab Council awarded for Social Sciences, and part of a bigger study on forensic medicine and death practices in the Palestinian context I conducted in 2016.”