Curriculum Vitae

Education

2022-Present
PhD Candidate, Department ‘Law and Anthropology‘, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Marie-Claire Foblets, Prof. Valerie Rosoux.

2018-2019
European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA), Global Campus of Human Rights, and Panteion University, Greece.
Supervisor: Prof. Daniella Maria MAROUDA, Chair of the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe

2009-2011
Master of Arts in Global Affairs, George Mason University, United States of America.  

2002-2006
Bachelor of Laws/International Relations, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco.

Professional Activities

2020-2021
Program Manager, The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.

2019-2020
Consultant, The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ),
Designed, researched, and authored a 64-page study on transitional justice and prevention (Moving from Mirage to Reality: Transitional Justice and Prevention in Morocco).

2015-2018
Field Protection Delegate, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Field missions in Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burundi.

2013-2014
Africa Analyst, Navanti Group.

2008-2013
Academic Advisor, Saudi Arabian Embassy to The United States of America

2007-2008
Research / Annotator, Iraqi Memory Foundation.

2007-2008
Research assistant to Professor Dina Khoury from the George Washington University,
Assisted Professor Dina Khoury with research for her book: Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance.

Research Affiliations:

2018-Present
Associate Fellow, The Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis (MIPA).

Presentation at Conferences and Workshops

October 2019
Paper: “Morocco’s Legal and Institutional Frameworks on Migration and Asylum,” Conference: “Carrefour de la Migration Intra-Africaine”, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Morocco (18 October 2019).

February 2012
Paper: “The Arab Spring in the Moroccan Context,” Conference: “The Arab Spring: A Year Later,” George Mason University, Unites States of America (9 February 2012).

Languages

Fluent in English

Fluent in French

Native fluency in Arabic

Berber / Amazigh: Spoken.