Amanda Najib is a scholar-activist and radical educator completing her Ph.D. at NYU. Her teaching, research, and scholarship occur at the intersections of race, politics, and education, with a particular focus on decolonial frameworks and Palestinian feminism. She is currently examining the institutional and systemic discrimination Palestinians face in an effort to theorize a Palestinian Critical Race Theory—one that centers decolonial praxis and moves beyond CRT’s U.S.-centric framework.
Amanda has taught in public schools in New York City and Chicago, as well as in refugee camps in Palestine, Lebanon, and Turkey. She now teaches pre-service teachers at NYU and CUNY. She is also the author of Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale and the winner of the 2024 Palestine Book Award.
Selected Publications
Najib, A. (2026). Towards a Palestinian American Critical Race Theory in Education. Special Issue: Palestinian Liberation in Education: Solidarities and Activism for a Free Palestine. Critical Education.
Najib, A., Shatara, H., & Eraqi, M. (2025). Transcending Boundaries: Arab American Studies as a Foundation for Equity and Justice in K-12 Education. Special Issue: Invisibility is Not a Natural State for Anyone”: The Fight for K-12 Asian American Studies. Educational Studies.
Neufield, M., Naraian, S., & Najib, A. (2025). Refusal as Praxis of Teaching Inclusively. Pedagogy, Culture, & Society.
Najib, A., Yunis, B.M., & Hasan, W. (2025). An Inherently Decolonial Existence: Defining Palestinian Feminist Praxis. In Funes-Flores, J. I., Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J., Diaz Beltran, A., Bakshi, S., Lao-Montes, A., & Rios, F. (Eds.), Handbook of Decolonial Theory. Sage.
Najib, A. (2024).Educational Malpractice and the Palestinian Struggle: The Academic and Moral Obligation to Confront the Erasure of a People. Arab Studies Journal, 32(2).
