Amsterdam, the NetherlandsDonau is a platform for in-depth reporting about Central and Southeast Europe. Donau contains reports, interviews and background information about the cultures, societies and political developments from Hungary to Ukraine and from Albania to Russia. As the only platform on Central and Southeastern Europe in Dutch, Donau tries to debunk clichés and create a nuanced and varied picture of the re...
Feb. 2019 - Present
University of BucharestAssociated researcher at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB)
Bucharest, RomaniaThe Research Institute of the University of Bucharest is a newly established institute of the University of Bucharest. With a team of researchers in the Social Sciences Division, I focus on gender and politics, the gender gap, civil society organisations and governance, human rights sanctions regimes, and diasporas and political engagement. Main research programme: The Third Sector in the Bla...
Beirut & BucharestStaff writer & commissioning editor. Wrote weekly blog about developments in culture and politics. Muftah launched in May 2010 to provide English-speaking audiences with incisive analysis on countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that eschewed the Western media’s focus on terrorism, oil, and Islamism, and highlighted the complex factors that shape and influence regional countrie...