From an early age Amal had to fight for a good education. She proceeded to get a BA in social work from Ben Gurion University in Israel and a PhD in social work and community organizing from McGill University. Amal became an activist very young and went on to found several NGOs, including the Arab-Jewish Centre for Equality, Economic Empowerment and Cooperation. She is the recipient of many international prizes, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), included in Genius 100 Visionaries of the Future (2017), and awarded the New Israel Fund’s Human Rights Award (2013).
The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society, and an indigenous Bedouin in Israel, Amal came into this world fighting for her voice to be heard in a community that did not prize girls. At birth it was only her father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call...
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