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GRM 2025 Workshop: Highly Skilled Migrants and the GCC countries Drivers, Perceptions, Policies, and New Dynamics

GRM 2024 Workshop: Migration to the Gulf: Possible Scenarios for the Future A View from the GCC and from Countries of Origin

GRM 2023 Workshop: Recent Labour and Migration Reforms and Policies in the Gulf: Impact on Economies and Societies

GRM 2021 Workshop: The COVID-19 Health and Socio-economic Crises: Consequences on Population and Migration in the Gulf

Senior Fellow with the Gulf Labour Markets, Migration and Population programme (GLMM) of the Gulf Research Center Senior Fellow Gulf Labour Markets, Migration, and Population (GLMM) Programme

(Ph.D.) is a researcher and consultant based in Paris, France. A socio-demographer by training, she specializes in the demography of Arab countries, especially in the Middle East and the Gulf region. Currently a Senior Fellow with the Gulf Labour Markets, Migration and Population programme (GLMM) of the Gulf Research Center Foundation since 2013, she was a Senior Fellow at the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) in Amman, Jordan for several years and a part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Her research focusses on population and socio-political dynamics in the region: youth, family structures, migration dynamics and policies, migration data. Her publications on migration issues and Gulf states include: “’Blocked Youth’: The Politics of Migration from the SEM Countries before and after the Arab Uprisings.” The International Spectator (53): 2018; “Youth Unemployment and Alienation in the Middle East: A Critical View”. In Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, A. Salvatore et al. (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; “New Profiles of Demand in the Gulf Cooperation Council and Possible Impact on Labor Migration from Asia”, in: ADBI/ILO/OECD (Eds.). Labor Migration in Asia: Changing Profiles and Processes, Tokyo/ Bangkok/ Paris: ADBI/ ILO/ OECD, June 2023, pp. 27-56, “The Politics of Migration in the Gulf States”. In Introduction to Gulf Politics, Kh. Almezaini and K. Alexander (Eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forth.); “As the Gulf Region Plots a Major Socio-Economic Transition, Its Highly Scrutinized Immigration Policies Are Yet to Yield Concrete Outcomes”, Migration Information Source (forth.). She co-edited with Nasra Shah a special issue on “Recent Labour and Migration Policy Reforms in the Gulf States: Winners and Losers”, Asia and Pacific Migration Journal (Forth., first quarter 2025).