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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.