Bjawi-Levine is a sociocultural anthropologist who holds a PhD from CUNY Graduate Center. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has taught courses on the Middle East and the Arab World at several colleges including George Washington University ad Santa Clara University. She has published articles on various topics surrounding human rights, Palestinian refugee children, and Iraqi refugees. Bjawi-Levine was born in Tunisia and grew up between Tunisia and France, and has lived, studied, worked and traveled extensively overseas. Her anthropological research focused mainly on North Africa and the Middle East where she conducted fieldwork among Palestinian children and families living in refugee camps.
Caste discrimination or persecution, Coercive population control, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Political persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Human Rights (including women's and children's); Refugees
My experience is based on anthropological fieldwork that lasted from 3 months to 2 years. I became close to several refugee families and witnessed their predicament. I wrote several academic articles.
Richard Harvey Brown & Laure Bjawi-Levine (2002) Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights: Contribution From Social Science of the Middle East, The Anthropologist, 4:3, 163-174, DOI: 10.1080/09720073.2002.11890742
Bjawi-Levine, Laure. "Childrens' Rights Discourse and Identity: Ambivalence in Palestinian Refugee Camps." Jerusalem Quarterly 37 (2009)
Bjawi-Levine, Laure. “Paying the Price of War.” Berghahn Journals, Berghahn Journals, 1 Dec. 2009, www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/ame/4/2/ame040206.xml.
Bjawi-Levine, Laure. "My heart is Palestinian, my passport is Jordanian." on Children in Migratory Circumstances (2013): 25.