Bio

I am a historian and researcher working on the histories and geographies of forced displacement, with a particular focus on refugee experiences, oral histories, and the relationship between lived memories and archival records. My research brings together social history, geography, anthropology, and critical archival research to examine how communities experience displacement, return, exile, and socio-political transformation. 

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center of Digital Humanities and Multilateralism at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where I also obtained my PhD in 2025 at the Department of International History and Politics. My doctoral thesis examined the Israeli occupation of the Jordan Valley through Palestinian oral histories and archival sources, with a focus on the experiences and memories of communities displaced after 1967 across both banks of the Jordan River.  

Following my PhD and until September 2026, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Basel. As part of the Futures Interrupted project, led by Prof. Dr. Falestin Naïli, my research explored social, economic, and political initiatives undertaken by Palestinian refugees throughout the Arab world in the three decades following the Nakba. 

This led to my latest research project, co-hosted at the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut, which examines how Palestinian refugees experienced and navigated everyday life between moments of renewed displacement, systemic violence, and perpetual exile across the Arab World, examining the histories of six refugee camps across Palestine (both West Bank and Gaza), Jordan, and Lebanon. 

My research has been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (the Doc.CH. Doc.Mobility, and Postdoc.Mobility grants) and the Palestinian American Research Center, and my doctoral thesis received the 2026 Pierre du Bois Prize.