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Ferdoos Alissa
Assistant Professor

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Ferdoos Abed Rabo Al-Issa holds a Ph.D in Mental Health and counseling from Ain Shams University in Egypt. She holds two master's degrees; one is in community mental health which she received from Al-Quds University, and another MA in disability counseling received from Flinders University in Australia. Dr. Ferdoos served as chairperson of the Social Science department at Bethlehem university and coordinate the MA program in Social Work 2021. Recently, Dr. Alessa is working as Assistant Professor at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar.
She was trained in EMDR in USA, Germany, Palestine, Turkey, Jordan, and Kosovo. She has also participated in many international and local conferences on mental health, psychological counseling, and social work.
She is on the editorial board of Bethlehem University Journal and  in Class and Status journal of Critical Approaches to Social Divisions.  Her latest publications include Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N., Wahab, S.,&  Abed-Rabo Al-Issa, F.(2022). Feminist Except for Palestine: Where Are Feminist Social Workers on Palestine? And Salama, B.,  Al-Issa, F, and Dakkak, N. (2022). Criminal justice for juvenile delinquents, the structural map of children who are in conflict with the law in the city of Bethlehem. Journal of Studies in the Psychology of Deviance 17(01):36-61. And Abed Rabo Alissa, F.,  and Beck, E."  Sexual Violence as a War Weapon in Conflict Zones: Palestinian Women's Experience Visiting Loved Ones in Prisons and Jails"(2021).


​Research Interests

Trauma and resilience, pollical violence,  and torture  among children and women. 


Teaching interests 

Social Work and  Mental Health. 

Taught courses 

-Direct Social Work Practice. 

-Advanced Direct  Social Work Practice 

- Advanced Clinical Practice

-Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice.

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N., Wahab, S.,&  Abed-Rabo Al-Issa, F.(2022). Feminist Except for Palestine: Where Are Feminist Social Workers on Palestine? Affilia 37(2):204-214. DOI: 10.1177/08861099221079381


Alissa-Abed Rabo, F., & Beck, E. (2020). Sexual Violence as a War Weapon in Conflict Zones: Palestinian Women’s Experience Visiting Loved Ones in Prison and Jails. Affilia Journal of Women and Social Work, DOI: 10.1177%2F0886109920978618


Alissa-Abed Rabo, F. (2020). Psychological Resilience among Palestinian Adolescent Ex-detainees in Israeli Jails. Bethlehem University Journal, 37, 85-104. doi:10.13169/bethunivj.37.2020.0085


Alissa-Abed Rabo, F. (2017). Methods of Investigation in Israeli Detention Centers Between the use of Theories of Psychology and Professional Ethics (Issued by the Commission of Detainee and Ex-Detainee Affairs). Publisher, Al-Ayam. Ramallah 


Beck, E., Charania, M., Alissa-Abed Rabo, F., & Wahab, S. (2017). Undoing Islamophobia: Awareness of Orientalism in Social Work. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 28(2), 58-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2017.1310542


Zaghrout-Hodali, M., Alissa-Abed Rabo, F., & Dodgson, P. (2008). Building Resilience and Dismantling Fear: EMDR Group Protocol with Children in an Area of Ongoing Trauma. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 2(2), 106-113. https://doi.org/10.1891/1933-3196.2.2.106

​Emai: falissa@dohainstitute.edu.qa

Mail Address

Ferdoos Alissa

Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

School of Social Sciences and Humanities 

P.O.Box: 200592 

Doha, Qatar 
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