Women's and Ethnic Studies (WEST)

Dr. Abeer Ibrahim is an instructor in the Women’s and Ethnic Studies Program and Psychology Department at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado.

   She was a social activist with several national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Egypt. She has worked to spread awareness of women’s issues with many non-governmental organizations in Egypt such as Hawaa Future Development in the fields of literacy, female genital mutilation, women’s empowerment and eliminating violence against women living in severe poverty. In addition, she was chosen to conduct several national and international research projects related to gender, violence and culture for the Egyptian government and to conduct the project, Women's Economic Empowerment to Eradicate Violence against Women in Egypt, funded by the Alliance for Arab Women and the Swiss Funds Association.
She was selected to be a formal panelist in several conferences including:

• National Women's Studies Association: Feminists against Academic Discrimination, June 28-July 1, 2007 St. Charles, IL.
• The 19th Annual Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival (RMWFF), November 3 – 5, 2006.
• The University of Northern Colorado: Women and Spirituality, November 11, 2007.
• University of Colorado at Boulder: New Directions in the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Arabs and Muslims, and Race and Ethnic Identity Panels, April 22, 2006.

She has developed a number of progressive new “special topics courses” in the Women’s Studies, as well as the History and Psychology Departments at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, including; Sex and Gender in Islam, Women in the Middle East, Violence against Women in the Middle East, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Jihad- Women and the Family, Women, War and Terrorism in the Middle East, Women and Justice in the Muslim World, Global Psychology of Women and the travel class to Egypt Gender and Culture in Egypt.
 Last but not least, She has discussed the issues of women in the Arab Middle East in several national and International conferences regarding these issues: female genital mutilation, honor killings, empowering women, illiteracy, and women and justice in eth Muslim world