Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer, and writer based in Chicago. She cowrote the novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072. Abdelhadi coedited a “Queer Palestine” issue of Pinko magazine published in 2024, and is coeditor of a special issue of Public Humanities called “Palestine as Paradigm: How Gaza Transformed the World.” She is also coeditor of a forthcoming volume entitled Muslim Engagements with Gender and Sexuality with Brill Press. She writes a regular column on Palestine and politics for In These Times magazine, and her essays have appeared in Jacobin, Truthout, Zeteo, and other publications. Abdelhadi is the subject of Coming Around, a feature-length documentary on the intersection between sexuality and religion. A long-time organizer in the movement for Palestinian liberation, she is active in Scholars for Justice, Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine, and the AAUP at the University of Chicago.