Ms. Irit Back

Born in Safed (Zfat), Israel
Primary & Secondary School in Afula
Army Service (Technical Management in the Air Force)

Academic Qualifications:

1982-1985

BA in Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University

1991-1995

MA in School of History, Tel Aviv University.
Thesis: “Back-to-Africa Movements in the United States and Reactions to them in West Africa, 1820-1924”

1996à

Ph.D. Candidate in the School of History.
Thesis: “From Negritude to Africanite: The Pan-African Theory and Policy of Leopold Sedar Senghor, 1960-1980”

 

Professional Experience:

1981-1982

Participant in the Youth Leadership Program for the absorption of Ethiopian Jews

1990-1995

Taught course African Contemporary Studies at Open University, Tel Aviv

1996-1998

Wrote and taught course, Contemporary Ethiopia, at Open University

1993-1998

Taught courses Culture and Politics in Francophone Africa; Women and Processes of Change in Africa; and others, in Dept. of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University.

1996-1997

Coordinator of African Studies Forum (bamat Afrika) on Africa-related research, Tel Aviv University

1998/9

Courses to be given in African Studies at Tel Aviv University:
Writing academic essays
Tradition and change in Africa: Women in Moslem societies
Politics, society and economics in Francophone Africa

 

Conterences:

1998

Paper on: “Women in Muslim Societies in Africa: Tradition and Change”, to The Sixth Conference on Feminist Research

Contact at:

Address: 17 Olei Hagardom, Tel Aviv 69715, Israel
Work Address: Dept. of Middle Eastern and African History, 451c Gillman Bldng.
Telephone: 972-3-6478811(h); 972-3-6409968(w)
e-mail: iritbak@post.tau.ac.il

 

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