ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2017 – present  Associate Professor in Sociology, CMES, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

2014 – 2016      University Lecturer, CMES, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

2011 – 2013      Senior Researcher, CMES, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (Parental Leave 2012 – 2013)

2004-2011        Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA (Research Leave: 2006-2008)

2006-2007       Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Science Research Council, Children of Immigrants in Schools Project & Centre Maurice Halbwachs – Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) – Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

2000-2004        Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York, NY, USA 

ADMINISTRATIVE POSTIONS

2017 – 2018      Director, CMES, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

2014 – 2015      Director of Studies, CMES, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

2010 – 2011      Director, Dallas Peace Center, Dallas, TX

EDUCATION

2004                 Ph.D. in Sociology, The University at Albany, State University of New York, USA

1992                 B.A. in Economics, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

National/International 

2008     “The Children of Immigrants in Schools: Comparing Mexican Americans and French North Africans.” The Social Science Research Council ($10,000)

2007     The National Science Foundation – Partnership for International Research and Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship ($40,000)

2004     Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowship, European University Institute (declined)

2004     Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences

2003     The Social Science Research Council, International Migration Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000)

2002     The Ford Foundation, Middle East Research Competition Award ($6,000)

Institutional/Departmental

2016     Internal Research Grant – CMES, Lund University (SEK 70,000)

2012     “Hydrosolidarity: Opportunities and Constraints in Water Management of the Nile River,” The Pufendorf Institute, Lund University, Thematic Research Grant

2009     Southern Methodist University – Hamilton Undergraduate Research Award ($1,500)

2009     Southern Methodist University – Office of Leadership and Community Involvement Service Learning Course Development Grant ($500)

2009     Southern Methodist University – Council on Research Travel Grant ($2,000)

2006     Southern Methodist University – Council on Research Travel Grant ($3,500)

2005     Southern Methodist University – Council on Research Travel Grant ($3,000)

2003     University at Albany – Department of Sociology, Allen E. Liska Dissertation Award ($1,000)

2001     University at Albany – Graduate Student Organization Research and Travel Grants (1,500)

2001     University at Albany – Initiatives for Women Awards ($500)

2001     University at Albany – Benevolent Association Research Awards ($500)

1996     University at Albany – Graduate Student Presidential Fellowship ($16,000)

INVITED TALKS AT UNIVERSITIES

2017     The Crisis Discourse and the Construction of Refugees in Sweden, Workshop on Key Elements of Model Communities for Refugees and Immigrants: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, June

2017     The Role of Social Capital in Understanding Refugees’ Incorporation and Adaptability, Department of Sociology, Lund University, May

2016     Crisis, Mobility and Generation. Symposium on Critical Explorations of Crises, Lund University, October

2012     Women and the Uprisings in the Arab World, Lund University Internet Institute, Module on ICT and New Media in Social Movements, November.

2012     The Lebanese Diaspora: A Comparative Ethnography, Stockholm University, Transnational Migration Seminar Series, October.

2012     Women’s Writes: Cross-National Perspectives on Feminisms and Empowerment (with Lory Dance), Malmö University, March.

2011     A Career in Research, or How I Followed my Passion, Zayed University, UAE, Summer Research Institute, June.

2010     The Challenges and Rewards of International Research and Training, The Social Science Research Council, International Migration Program, September.

2009     Learning to Labor, Learning to Cope: The Integration of Second-Generation Mexican Americans and French North Africans, Fordham University, Department of Sociology, December.

2008     Lebanese Immigrant Identities and Communities: Narratives from Three Cities, The University of Cyprus, Co-sponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies and Sociology Departments, April.

2007     Arab-Americans’ Boundary-Making Mechanisms Post 9/11, Conference on “Trojan Horse or Assimilated Citizens? Arab-American Identities after 9/11,” University of Texas, A&M, College Station, February.

2005     Lebanese Immigrants in a Changing Global World, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, November.

2005     A Comparative Analysis of Political Engagement of Lebanese Immigrants in Three World Cities, Conference on Middle Eastern Diasporas, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, March.

TALKS AT NON-ACADEMIC INSITUTIONS

2018     Arab Culture in the Diaspora, Arabic Book Fair, Malmö, April

2017     Building Communities, Sustaining Families: Arab Women and Migration to Sweden, Ibn Rushd Studieförbund, Malmö, April

2016     Still a Future: Syria Moving Forward Despite Uncertainty, Almedalen, Visby, July

2015     The Middle East in Focus: Migration from the Middle East to Sweden. Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, November

2015     The Middle East in Focus: What happened to the Arab Spring hope? Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, March

2014     Ambivalent Identities, Contested Communities: Middle East Diasporas in a Global World, Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, January.

PEER-REVIEWED PAPER PRESENTATIONS (last 10 years)

2018       Refugees in Sweden and the Crisis in Disciplining Bodies, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Seville, Spain, July

2017       The Racialization of Syrian Refugees in National Newspapers in Jordan and Turkey, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, August

2017       The Role of Social Capital in Understanding Refugees’ Incorporation and Adaptation into Host Countries, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh, July

2016       Integration through Education? Aspirations, Experiences, and Opportunities among Two Second Generations, (co-authored with Amy Lutz and Yaël Brinbaum), Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, August

2016        Newspaper Coverage of the Refugee: Divergent Discourses over Time and Space, the 13^th Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO), University of Catania, Italy, March

2015       Perceptions of Socioeconomic Mobility by Second Generation Mexican Americans and French North Africans, (co-authored with Amy Lutz and Yaël Brinbaum), Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August

2013       Women and Regime Change in Egypt: The Potential for Revolutionary Cultural Codes in a Changing Society, Workshop on Regime Change in the Middle East, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, November.

2013       Women in the UAE between the Global and the National, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August.

2013       Educational Inequalities and perceptions of Social Mobility of the Second Generation In France and US, (co-authored with Yaël Brinbaum and Amy Lutz), Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August.

2013       Inequalities in Education and Employment: Comparing Second Generation Mexicans in the US and North Africans in France, (co-authored with Yaël Brinbaum and Amy Lutz), Colloquium on French-American Comparison, Science Po, Paris, June.

2012       Global Roots and Localized Cosmopolitanism: Lebanese Diasporic Experiences, Conference on “The Mashriq and the Mahjar: Migration from the Levant, 1800-2000,” North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, April.

2012       Women, Nation Building and the Limits of Feminism: A Case Study of United Arab Emirates Female Leaders, Gender and Women’s Studies Consortium Inaugural Conference, Sharjah, UAE, March

2011       Islam and Cosmopolitanism: Expressions of Religiosity and Public Engagement among Egyptian Women, Annual Meeting of the Middle East Association of North America, Washington, DC, December.

2011       The State of the Art of Research on Arab Women, The German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation International Congress, Freie University, Berlin, Germany, October.

2011       Women Businesses and Corporate Social Responsibility in the UAE, The 2^nd Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, July.

2009       Educational and Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Mexican Americans and French Maghrebins, (coauthored with Amy Lutz and Yaël Brinbaum), The Children of Immigrants in Schools Conference, New York, NY, October.

2009       Educational and Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Mexican Americans and French Maghrebins, (coauthored with Amy Lutz and Yaël Brinbaum), the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August.

2009       Early Labor Market Experiences among Mexican Americans in the United States and Maghrebins in France, (coauthored with Amy Lutz) accepted at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA, April.

2009       Educational Experiences and the Early Labor Market Incorporation of Second-Generation Youth in the United States and France: A Comparison of Mexican Americans and French Maghrebins, (coauthored with Amy Lutz and Yaël Brinbaum), The Second Generation Research Dialogues, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University Berlin, Germany, January.

2008       Cosmopolitan Identity and Global Engagement: The Case of the Lebanese Diaspora, The American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, August.

2008       Locating Cosmopolitanism in the Lebanese Diaspora, World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, July. 

PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS

• Member of the Metropolis Project International Steering Committee (2018 – present)
• Member of Middle East Studies Association (2010 – present)
• Member of the Southern Sociological Society (2005 – 2011)
• Member of the American Sociological Association (2001 – present)

Activities at Professional Meetings

2018       Panel Organizer and Presider: Urban Effects: Understanding Social Change in the Neighborhood

Panel Organizer and Presider: Reconstructing the Past, Challenging the Preset              Panel Discussant: Revolutionary Subjectivities, Class Politics and the Subalterns               World Congress in Middle Eastern Studies, Seville, Spain, July

2017       Panel Organizer and Presider: Beyond Vulnerability: The Creative Use of Social Capital among Middle Eastern Immigrants and Refugees, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh, July

2014       Panel Organizer: The Narratives of the Arab Uprisings: Towards a Cultural Analysis of Social Movements in the Middle East

Panel Organizer:Perceptions of Socioeconomic Integration of Middle Eastern Immigrants in Europe: Comparing National Discourses and Subjective Experiences

World Congress in Middle Eastern Studies, Ankara, Turkey, August

2012       Workshop Co-Director: Women and Globalization in the GCC: Negotiating States, Agency and Social Change. The Third Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge, UK, July.

2012       Session Organizer: New Perspectives on Globalization and Feminism

Session Organizer: Introducing Gender in Arabic

Gender and Women Studies in the Arab Region: The Inaugural Conference of the United Arab Emirates’ Gender and Women’s Studies Consortium, Sharjah, UAE, March

2011       Session Co-Organizer: Women and Business in the Middle East and North Africa. The German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation International Congress, Freie University, Berlin, Germany, October.

2009       Session Organizer: Arabs and Arab Americans.  The American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August.

2008       Session Organizer: (Re-) Asserting Collective Memory in a Global Age.  The International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, June.

Grant Reviewer

European Research Council; The National Science Foundation (USA); University at Albany Faculty Seed Grants; University at Albany Graduate Student Research and Travel Grants

Manuscript Reviewer

Journal of Refugee Studies, Identity, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Development Studies, Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Ethnic and Racial Studies, American Sociological Review, Sociological Forum, Sociology Compass, Cultural Dynamics, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Sociological Forum, Middle East Critique, Sage Publications, New York University Press

MEDIA INTERVIEWS

“On the declining popularity of governing parties in Sweden,” Radio Sweden, June 6, 2018

“The Center of Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University anticipates ongoing restrictive immigration policies,” Radio Sweden, May 9, 2018

“Gender-related attitudes among Arab youth,” Swedish Public Television, September 3, 2017

“A winding road to the north: Swedish debate about immigration,” Przeglad Baltycki, in Polish, December 7, 2015

“Egyptians go to the polls,” Sydsvenskan newspaper, and Goteborgs Posten newspaper, Smalands posten, November 18, 2015

“Gigantic gas discovery can turn against democracy in Egypt,” Dagens Nyheter, August 31, 2015

“Protests can Reinvigorate Pro-Democracy Movement,” Svd Nyheter newspaper, July 2, 2013

“The Women Faded Away (Ikea in Saudi Arabia),” Sydsvenskan newspaper, October 2, 2012

“Women and Social Change in Saudi Arabia,” Swedish Television, March 16, 2012

“Russia and China veto Intervention in Syria,” Swedish Radio – Arabic Broadcast, February 6, 2012

“North Texas Egyptian Americans Celebrate the Fall of Mubarak,” North Texas National Public Radio, February 11, 2011

“Two Faiths Unite for Holiday Tradition,” North Texas Public Radio, December 16, 2010