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Scientific Community

Scientific Community at Social Sciences Lab - MENA are composed of senior scholars who collaborate to our research activities, together with our non-resident scholars and affiliated members.  

Dr. Meysam Badamchi

Research Interests: Political philosophy, liberalism and multiculturalism in Muslim-majority societies, comparative constitutionalism, civil society in the MENA region, nationalism and identity politics, and contemporary Islamic political theory.




Dr. El Mnasfi Mustapha

Research Interests: Public policies, civil society and citizen participation in Morocco







Dr. Alexander Dawoody

Research Interests: Complexity and systems, Middle Eastern studies, foreign policy and national security, public policy analysis, education, and political philosophy.





Dr. Eman
Rashwa

Research Interests: Public law, law and economics, international law, political systems, human rights, transitional justice, and project management.






Dr. Amar
Rouabhi

Research Interests: International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, and North African Security Studies.







Dr. Sourour
Talbi

Research Interests: International law and international relations.








Dr. Shatha
Sakher

Research Interests: security culture, religious discourse, and topics related to the sociology of education.







Dr. Samer
Abboud

Research Interests: Intersection between critical security studies and political economy, with an emphasis on Syria.







Ms. Farah
Al Shami

Research Interests: social policy, tax justice, informality, inequality, gender justice, international financial institutions, youth trajectories (for livelihoods, political participation, civic engagement, and peace building) in conflict settings, public-private partnerships, the 2030 development agenda, transnational social movements, and governance and civil society.

Dr. Marouan
Blaiha

Research Interests: Society and the state, non-institutionalized groups and the state in the MENA region.







Dr. Ferdinand
Eibl

Research Interests: Political economy of distributive politics, social policies, and authoritarian rule in the MENA region.







Dr. Judicaël
Alladatin

Research Interests: Administration, governance and planning of education and training, educational technologies, applied demography and population sciences, economics and sociology of development, administrative and pedagogical engineering.



Dr. Ali Salem Ashor

Research Interests: Issues of the Mediterranean and Maghreb societies, the importance and role of the media in freedom of the press, human rights, extremism, terrorism, illegal immigration, drugs, gender issues, and others.




Dr. Hassan Reza Aryaeerad

Research Interests: Political Sociology, New Theories in Political Science, Theories of Modernization and Political Development, Political and Economic Problems in Developing Countries.





Dr. Izadin Almohammady

Research Interests: Law, human rights, civil state-building, anti-corruption, international humanitarian law, international arbitration Protection of civilians during military conflicts, peace building, peaceful coexistence, and civil protection.



Dr. Moamen Gouda

Research Interests: Institutional Economics of Muslim-majority Countries, Law and Economics of Islam, Economics of Crime and Terrorism, and Islamic Constitutionalism.





Dr. Said
Saddiki

Research Interests: Border walls/fences, foreign policy analysis, international migration, and the Western Sahara dispute.






Dr. Hassan Zouaoui

Research Interests: Political Sociology, Political Islam in Morocco, issues of democracy in the Arab world.







Dr. Hadia
Yahiaoui

Research Interests: Democracy, Sustainable development, Security and Gender.







Dr. Ayat Jebril Nashwan

Research Interests: Social work with the elderly, medical social work, family social work, social work with refugees and immigrants.






Dr. Nael
Georges

Research Interests: Human Rights and Inter-religious Dialogue.








Dr. Wafaa Samir Naim

Research Interests: Political Sociology.









Dr. Laaouimir Lahoucine

Research Interests: Human Rights and Transitional Justice.








Dr. Hajer
Gueldich

Research Interests: International law, Humanitarian law, Human rights, Constitutional law, Political science, Administrative Organization, Compared legal systems and transitional periods, in Tunisia and abroad.




Non-resident Scholars

Aziz Qaissi

Research Interests: Critical policy analysis and critical cultural policy analysis.







Dr. Ahmed Mohsen

Research Interests: Public Policy and Good Governance.








Dr. Christopher Cox

Research Interests: Comparative politics of the MENA region, youth political participation, opposition political parties and civil society dynamics under authoritarianism, the subject of ‘democratic aid’, impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in state-society relations across the MENA, and sports and identity-formation and their influences on politicized activities.

Dr. Faisal Mahbob

Research Interests: Elections, democratic transition, rights and freedoms, Political and social movements, civil society organizations, political empowerment of women and youth, good governance and combating corruption.




Dr. Feras Ali Qawasmeh

Research Interests: Public Administration and Public Policy.








Dr. Khalid Didi

Research Interests: Social and solidarity economy, and sustainable development.








Dr. Nawaf Alqahtani

Research Interests: Public law, law and its relationship to religion (Sharia), politics, and economics.







Dr. Oumaima Elghazali

Research Interests: Educational and Intercultural Exchange and Skills Development in Youth.







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