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Meriem Ababsa
IFPO Amman
Occupation
Researcher
Contact
830413 Zahran
Amman 11183
Jordan
ABOUT
Myriam Ababsa is a French-Algerian Social Geographer based in Jordan since 2000. Her work focuses on the impact of public policies on regional and urban development in Jordan and Syria. Associate researcher at the French Institute for the Near-East (Institut Français du Proche-Orient), she has directed the Atlas of Jordan. History, Territories, Society (Beirut : Ifpo 2013, 485 p. http://books.openedition.org/Ifpo/4560). She has co-edited with Dr. Rami Daher, Cities, Urban Practices and Nation Building in Jordan (Beirut: IFPO, 2011 http://books.openedition.org/ifpo/1675) and co-edited with Baudouin Dupret and Eric Denis Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East (University of Cairo Press, 2012). She holds a PhD in Geography from the University François Rabelais of Tours (2004) (Syrian Studies Association, Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Special Mention, 2006).
Discipline
Geography
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Public Policy
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Jordan
Syria
Specialties
Public Policies In Regional Development, Housing A
Languages
French (native)
English (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Education
DPhil | 2004 | Géographie | Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
Abstracts
Raqqa after the Islamic State: Reconstruction and Governance Dilemmas in Syria