(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
Doha: Qatar University's (QU) Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences at College of Medicine, Dr. Suhad Daher-Nashif, has been named Sociologist of the Month for February 2021 by Current Sociology, the Journal of the International Sociology Association.
Dr. Suhad heads the Wellbeing Committee at the College and heads the Mental Health Research Group at QU-Health.
This selection came based on the new knowledge and the unique analytical contributions she made in her article 'Colonial Management of death: to be or not to be dead in Palestine, published in the journal Current Sociology in August 2020. While speaking about her published article, she said, 'This research shed light on the issue of withholding and freezing the bodies of dead Palestinians that Israel practiced during ‘Al-Quds Uprising' in 2015. The study presents how withholding and freezing the dead influence the Palestinian families politically, psychologically, and socially. This study is part of my postdoctoral research that the Arab Council awarded for Social Sciences, and part of a bigger study on forensic medicine and death practices in the Palestinian context I conducted in 2016.
On the importance of choosing this research, Dr. Suhad added, 'This study highlights the rights of the dead rights as human rights, while most of the studies focus on the rights of living humans. Furthermore, the paper presents the families' voices and their experiences and explains how freezing the body and preventing it from dying (Biologically and socially) freezes the whole family's life and prevents them from living in all aspects of life. The study explains how in colonised zones, despite its dead status, the dead body has an active role in reshaping the colonised-coloniser relationship and has a role in reshaping the Palestinian collective national discourse.
Dr. Suhad also discussed her research interests and said, 'My main research passion is to dismantle the intersectionality between science, society, and politics in medical and cultural contexts, and how this intersectionality is inscribed over the dead and the living.
In addition to her studies on forensic medicine, she recently analyzes this intersectionality in mental health and medical education settings in the MENA.
Commenting on the role of QU and the College of Medicine, she said, 'The success of any researcher begins with their passion for their studies, and empowered by the support from family and workplace.
Qatar University and the College of Medicine have an important role in all my achievements by creating a strong culture of high standard academic and scientific research. I could have all kinds of support when I needed it and asked for it. Despite the COVID-19 challenges, my hard work combined with the support from my family and QU enabled me to publish more than ten scientific manuscripts since the beginning of 2020.
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