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.

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.























