I am a second-year graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Global Studies MA program and am an affiliate of the university's Middle East Center (CMEIS). My research focuses on labor migration and human trafficking in the MENA region, centering on labor organizing amongst migrant domestic workers in Beirut post-2019. I received a Summer Opportunity Grant from the Global Studies department to pursue Arabic language studies.
Beyond my academic work at UNC, I serve as a TA for the Global Studies and Geography departments. Additionally, I interned for Dr. Dean Duncan of the UNC School of Social Work to develop training for various stakeholders regarding the human trafficking of people with disabilities in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. This internship led to working with Ph.D. candidate Melissa Jenkins at the School of Social Work on a systematic review for her dissertation regarding the sexual abuse and trafficking of youth with disabilities. Lastly, I work part-time as a barista at Joe Van Gogh and collaborate with my peers as the editor-in-chief of UNC's The Global Gazette journal.
As an undergraduate student at Davidson College, I studied History and Arab Studies major and am a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Kendrick Kelley Honors Scholar. While at Davidson, I studied and researched abroad in Jordan, Lebanon, and Morocco and received a Meet My World grant to travel to Kenya and Nepal. I received a Dean Rusk grant from Davidson to study intensive Modern Standard Arabic at the Qasid Institute in Jordan. In Jordan, I completed research on Palestinian culture in Amman. Additionally, I received an Abernethy grant from Davidson to complete independent research on Arab-German youth culture and rap/hip-hop music in Berlin. I completed field research for my Arab Studies capstone on drag and the LGBTQ+ community in Beirut through an Abernethy grant. Finally, I received a position in the 2020-2021 cohort of the Kendrick Kelley Honors Program for History to complete a year-long honors thesis and conduct research on the history of Moroccan guest workers in Germany. I received high honors for this thesis.
Beyond my academic work at UNC, I serve as a TA for the Global Studies and Geography departments. Additionally, I interned for Dr. Dean Duncan of the UNC School of Social Work to develop training for various stakeholders regarding the human trafficking of people with disabilities in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. This internship led to working with Ph.D. candidate Melissa Jenkins at the School of Social Work on a systematic review for her dissertation regarding the sexual abuse and trafficking of youth with disabilities. Lastly, I work part-time as a barista at Joe Van Gogh and collaborate with my peers as the editor-in-chief of UNC's The Global Gazette journal.
As an undergraduate student at Davidson College, I studied History and Arab Studies major and am a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Kendrick Kelley Honors Scholar. While at Davidson, I studied and researched abroad in Jordan, Lebanon, and Morocco and received a Meet My World grant to travel to Kenya and Nepal. I received a Dean Rusk grant from Davidson to study intensive Modern Standard Arabic at the Qasid Institute in Jordan. In Jordan, I completed research on Palestinian culture in Amman. Additionally, I received an Abernethy grant from Davidson to complete independent research on Arab-German youth culture and rap/hip-hop music in Berlin. I completed field research for my Arab Studies capstone on drag and the LGBTQ+ community in Beirut through an Abernethy grant. Finally, I received a position in the 2020-2021 cohort of the Kendrick Kelley Honors Program for History to complete a year-long honors thesis and conduct research on the history of Moroccan guest workers in Germany. I received high honors for this thesis.
