Alh'jooj Changes Bedouin Patriarchy from Withinbr WAC: Connecticut - World Affairs Council, Connecticutbr Amal Elsana Alh'jooj is the director of the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation.Amal was born in Laqiya, an Arab Bedouin village in the northeastern Negev, to a family with 13 children. At the age of 17 she established the first Arab Bedouin women's organization.