Selected Research Activities

2024                 Principal Investigator “Expatriate Public Perceptions of the Qatari Legal and Judicial System: Family Law, Institutions, and Usages of Local Courts” (funded by Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities/German Federal Ministry of Education and Research)

2024                 Visiting Researcher, Abu Dhabi Judicial Academy, United Arab Emirates

2022                 Organizer Workshop “Female Legal Professionals in Popular Culture: A Transnational Comparison”, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities in cooperation with the University of Münster, Collaborative Research Centre 1385 “Law and Literature”, 11-12 August 2022

2021                 Visiting Scholar, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2021                 Host Hybrid Panel Discussion “Law, Gender & Popular Culture: Representations of Female Legal Professionals in Contemporary Arab Popular Culture”, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities in cooperation with New York University Abu Dhabi, 9 December 2021

2020                 Co-Organizer Online Author Workshop “Arab Countries and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact, Implications, and Future Prospects”, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities in cooperation with the University of Leipzig, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg & Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, 20-22 October 2020

2020                 Principal Investigator and Co-Organizer Online Workshop “Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives”, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities in cooperation with the University of Leipzig, 19-21 August 2020

2019                 Co-Organizer Conference “Destruction/(Re-)Construction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cultural Heritage in Conflict”, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities in cooperation with the American University of Beirut and the Orient-Institut Beirut, Lebanon, 30 September-2 October 2019

2017                 Co-Organizer Workshop “Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?”, Max Planck Working Group on Child Law in Muslim Countries in cooperation with the Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth and the Orient-Institut Beirut, Lebanon, 9-10 November 2017

2015–2016         Member and Grantee Research Initiative “The Gulf Family” Georgetown University in Qatar, Center for International and Regional Studies

2015                 Co-Organizer Workshop “Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries”, Max Planck Working Group on Child Law in Muslim Countries in cooperation with the Centre Jacques Berque pour les Études en Sciences Humaines et Sociales au Maroc, Rabat, Morocco, 2-4 April 2015

2014                 Participant Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations, The Hague Academy of International Law

2014                 Participant IGLP: The Workshop organized by Harvard Law School, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Doha, Qatar

2013                 Co-Organizer Conference “The Dynamics of Legal Development – Family and Succession Law”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, 17-19 October 2013

2012                 Visiting Researcher, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Regional Program Gulf States, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2009                 Visiting Researcher, Columbia University in the City of New York, Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion