Scientific Community
Our scientific community brings together senior scholars, non-resident scholars, affiliated researchers, and emerging academics united by a shared interest in advancing knowledge on the Middle East and North Africa. Through research collaboration, academic exchange, mentorship, and joint initiatives, our community creates opportunities for researchers at different stages of their careers to connect, learn, and contribute to high-quality, interdisciplinary research.
The community serves as a space for intellectual exchange, collaboration, and the development of lasting academic connections across the MENA region and beyond.

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.
Non-resident Scholars
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.


























