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Abdallah El Ayach
Email: ama126@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Spring 2016-2017
Abdallah graduated with a BA in Business Administration in Spring 2012 from AUB, and worked for more than four years in the finance services sector. He plans to pursue PhD studies after finishing his MA in Anthropology.
Research interests: identity, ideology, mobilization, and cultural production.
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| Marwa Bakabas
Email: mnb19@mail.aub.edu
Start Date: Fall 2016-2017
Marwa is an Arab-American holding a BA in Global Affairs. Her fieldwork and research has been held in refugee camps in both Greece and Lebanon. Her current fieldwork is being conducted in the Beqaa Valley to provide a framework for assessing and addressing the needs of refugee populations living in haphazardly constructed dwellings, as well as identifying challenges of access and consistency of care.
Research Interests: dwellings, comparing needs as a social practice through ethnographic research, humanitarian aid, applied anthropology, medical anthropology, exile, the aging population.
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| Nora Ali Bakhsh
Email: nab34@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Fall 2017-2018
Nora holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the American University of Sharjah. She has previously worked at the Columbia University Middle East Research Center in Amman, and at the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF).
Research interests: marriage, anthropology of affect, feminism, construction of masculinity/femininity.
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Noor Daher
Email: nmd26@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Spring 2015
Noor has a BA in Social Work from Haigazian University. Directly after receiving her undergraduate degree, she applied to the Anthropology program at AUB, and has been a graduate student since. She is currently working on her thesis, which is prospected to be an ethnography of women students at a religious Hawza in Beirut.
Research interests: women and gender studies, feminism, Islamic studies, religion and globalization.
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Rabih Hajaig
Email: ryh08@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Fall 2018-2019
Rabih is currently pursuing his MA in Anthropology at AUB. He has spent over ten years working in development and humanitarian relief with local and international organizations, mainly around issues related to gender justice and migrant workers’ rights. He currently works in engaging youth to lead projects serving their own communities across Lebanon.
Research interests: Anthropology of the future, gender and sexuality studies, identity and politics, ethnomusicology.
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| Batoul Al Hajj
Email: baa54@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Fall 2018-2019
Batoul graduated with a dual degree from AUB: BS in Biology and a BA in Sociology-Anthropology.
Research interests: Anthropology of Islam, public and private space, studies on piety, religion.
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Ziad Kiblawi
Email: zsk04@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Fall 2016-2017
Ziad earned a BA in Sociology and Anthropology and is currently pursuing his MA in Anthropology at AUB. He has worked as an archivist and researcher for several art institutions in Beirut and is currently researching modern art and intellectual history from Lebanon from the 1960s to the 90s.
Research interests: modernity and capitalist modernization, structuralism and post-structuralism, historiography, militant thought, intellectual history, continental philosophy, philosophy of anthropology.
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Zhixi Liu
Email: zql00@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Fall 2017-2018
Zhixi holds a BA in Philosophy from Shandong University (PRC), with an emphasis on the heritage of dialogues between Islam and Confucianism. She has conducted a research about Muslim widows’ lands donations to masjids in a Muslim community in Jinan, China. She is interested in studying how Muslim women in China’s central plain struggle between self-perceived volition and ascribed nationalistic-roles.
Research interests: Islam in China; Islamic feminism; chronic disease; lingual de-colonialism; visual anthropology.
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Shantanu Mehra
Email: sam61@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Spring 2015-2016
Before joining AUB, Shantanu completed his MA in Islamic studies from the University of Melbourne.
Research interests: Anthropology of Islam, Islamic feminism, secularism and public space.
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Haya Mortada
Email: hhm08@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Fall 2018 - 2019
Haya holds a BE in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MSc in International Business Management. She has worked for more than 5 years in the fields of public policy, public management and development. She plans to pursue PhD studies after finishing her MA in Anthropology.
Research interests: anthropology of work, political economy, migration, social movements, infrastructure
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Mariana Nakfour
Email: msn13@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Fall 2017-2018
Mariana holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from AUB with a concentration in marketing. She is now pursuing her MA in anthropology in AUB, hoping to merge it with architectural theory in the future.
Research interests: material culture, senses, aesthetics, emotions, memory, architecture.
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Rayane Al Rammal
Email: rma146@aub.edu.lb
Start date: Fall 2017-2018
Before joining AUB, Rayane earned her BA in linguistics from the Lebanese University- Beirut. She is currently pursuing her MA in Sociolinguistics at the Lebanese University and Anthropology at AUB. She works as a freelance researcher.
Research interests: Gender, sexuality, power, religion, violence, social suffering, semiotics, language, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, Global politics, colonization and the Palestinian case.
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Ramy Shukr
Email: rhs42@mail.aub.edu
Start date: Fall 2016-2017
Ramy is currently pursuing his MA in Anthropology at AUB. He has been working on community-building projects with migrant domestic workers in Beirut since 2012. Ramy works on the intersection of transgender studies, political economy, social relations, and area studies. He is currently conducting fieldwork for his thesis project "Transgender Attachments, Space, and Political Economy in Beirut".
Research interests: transgender studies, social bonds, political economy, area studies, psychoanalysis.
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Rita Jarrous
Email: raj21@mail.aub.edu
Start Date: Spring 2017-2018
Rita is currently pursuing her MA in Anthropology at AUB. After earning a BA in Political Science and International Affairs from the University of Balamand, Rita worked as a researcher at the Palestine Unit at UN-ESCWA. Rita has been working for two years as a researcher at Qperspective; a regional firm providing a comprehensive range of consulting services focused on the development of local communities.
Research interests: informal economy, labor organizations, gender in the workplace, social relations, forced migration, development programmes, and Palestine and the question of Apartheid.
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