I am a Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, where my research focuses on women’s rights, human rights & refugees in the Middle East and North Africa. Previously I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and at the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy at the University of Denver. I earned my PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine in 2017. My doctoral research examined Middle East and North African states as countries of migrant and refugee settlement and my dissertation was titled "Reluctant Reception: Understanding Host State Migration and Refugee Policies in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey." It was chosen for the 2018 Best Dissertation award by the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association. My writing has appeared in the International Studies Review, the European Journal of International Relations, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, the Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Égypte/Monde arabe, Refugee Review, The Postcolonialist, Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, Jadaliyya, Muftah, and the Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog. She received a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Political Science

Turkish Studies

Maghreb Studies

Diaspora/Refugee Studies

Human Rights

Security Studies

Mediterranean Studies

Gender/Women's Studies

Egypt

Lebanon

Mediterranean Countries

Morocco

Turkey

Migration, Citizenship And Host State Policies; Au

Arabic (advanced)

French (intermediate)