A research briefing with

May Al-Dabbagh
Director of the Gender and Public Policy Program, Dubai School of Government

"The Gendered Effect of Globalization on the Identities of Young Saudis"

Date: Monday 26 July 2010
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Conference and Training Room, Van Dyk Hall, AUB


Short Bio:

Dr. May Al-Dabbagh will present research on the gendered effect of globalization on university students in the Gulf Cooperative Council Countries titled "Mind Your Language: The Role of Biculturalism in the Propensity to Initiate Negotiations in Globalizing Contexts". This paper focuses on exploring the nature of bicultural identities among university students in Saudi Arabia and provides an empirical test of the gendered effect of globalization on identity and negotiation expectations. This paper, jointly authored with Professor Hannah Riley Bowles (Harvard University), is part of a multiyear research project at the Gender and Public Policy Program titled "Intersections between culture and gender in negotiation".

Al-Dabbagh earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Oxford and spent one year as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology. As well as being a member of several organizations, including the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Gender Gap and the International Association for Conflict Management, she was appointed to the board of the Harvard Alumni Association as the regional director for the Middle East and Africa region.