General Director of “MADAR” the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (Ramallah) and a Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Her PhD was carried out at Hebrew University Sociology Department and focused on the social role of the Palestinians intellectuals in Israel 1948-2002.
Dr. Ghanim was a visiting lecturer in several Universities between 1998-2004 amongst Al-Quds University, Bier Zeit University, Bethlehem University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Between 2006 and 2007 she was Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Sociology Department at Harvard University.
Her main interests are in the fields of political and cultural sociology as will as Gender studies. She is interested especially in the dynamics of institutionalized power, subjectivity and the formation of the political and cultural foundation of social life. Among the subject that she search, is the role of Palestinian intellectuals in formation nationalism inside Israel, intellectuals and gendering nationalism, and body management under military occupation.
In her book, Reinventing a Nation: -Palestinian Intellectuals in Israel, she focus on a comparison of three generations of Palestinian intellectuals and idea producers and disseminators in Israel. The book displays the ways that these intellectuals struggled to make meaning and contextualizing of their national catastrophes (Nakba) and to cope with it by building some alternative social and political identities, while also attempting to preserve their relative elite and preferential positions. The research is based on qualitative content analysis of the works of major writers, poets, journalists and essay writers - from 1948 and onward - who were active in Israel, at least for a part of their lives.


Publications
Books
Intellectuals reinventing a Nation: Israeli-Palestinian Persons of-Pen Crossing Boundaries and Struggling Liminality (Magnes Press, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Forthcoming in Hebrew)

Attitudes towards the Status and Rights of Palestinian Women in Israel (Women against Violence in Nazareth, 2005, in Arabic,
Hebrew, English)
Articles in Journals and chapters in edited books

“Being a border”, in Palestinians in Israel: ontology, edited by Rhoda Knaneh and Isis Nusseir, (Suny Publications, the state university of NY, NY). (Forthcoming).

“Poetics of Disaster: Nationalism, Gender, and Social Change among Palestinian Poets in Israel after Nakba”, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 22, no.1, 2009. P.23-39

“Homeland and Statehood: Palestinians Intellectuals in Israel Re- articulating National Identity after the Naksa,” The Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, MIT, spring 2008

“Living in the peak of the volcano: Palestinian poets articulating time and space,” Mada Akhar l (1), 2005 (in Arabic)

“Thanatopolitics: the case of the colonial occupation in Palestine,” In Thinking Palestine, edited by Ronit Lentin, (Zed publications, 2008).
“What is the Colour of an Arab?” In: Race, Racism and Racialization, edited by Yehuda Shenhav and Yossi Yona, ( Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 2008) (Hebrew)
“Living in the shadow of emergency,” In: The partition motif, edited by Smita Tewari Jassal and Eyal Ben-Ari, (New Delhi, Sage pub., 2007).
“Between Nativisim and Citizenhood, the Political Role of the Palestinian Intellectuals in Israel,” In Dorot, Merhavim, Zehuyut, edited by Hanna Herzog, Tal Kochavi and Shemshon Zlenker, (Van Leer Research Institute, Jerusalem, 2007) (in Hebrew).