Maha Karkabi-Sabbah is currently a post-doctor fellow at the Sociology Department, Tel Aviv University, and has recently finished her Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London. Her research project examines relations between the changing educational attainment of the Palestinians in Israel, class and the gender roles in the family. Karkabi-Sabbah completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. She studied the relations between the dramatic change in the educational attainment of the Palestinian women in Israel and their marriage patterns. Her current works concentrate on family, gender, inequality, and Palestinian Society in Israel. She received several awards and grants for her research, among them the Post-doctoral Scholar Award of The Israel Science Foundation (ISF), and of The Council for Higher Education in Israel (VTAT), 2015-2016.