Profile 01
JSPS fellow at Tohoku University. PhD in Management. The work draws on years of NGO project work in Palestine and fieldwork in places where the state isn't really running things. Before the PhD I was at DCAF in Geneva. I've taught at AAUP. The thread that runs through all of it is the same: how institutions actually behave, as opposed to how their org charts say they should.
Education 02
- 2021–2024PhD, Management — Tohoku University
- 2017–2018MSc, Finance & Economic Development — University of Glasgow
- 2012–2016BA, Economics (Minor: Int'l Law & HR) — Al-Quds Bard / Al-Quds University
Experience 03
- 2025–PresentJSPS International Research Fellow — Tohoku University
- 2024–2025Assistant Professor — Arab American University Palestine
- 2022–2024Teaching & Research Assistant — Tohoku University
- 2018–2020Junior Project Officer — DCAF (Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance)
Skills 04
- ResearchField research, qualitative methods, thematic analysis, NVivo, ATLAS.ti
- QuantitativeSPSS, EViews, Python (pandas, numpy)
- ToolsLaTeX, Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace
- PracticeProject management, grant writing, monitoring & evaluation, teaching
Languages 05
- NativeArabic
- FluentEnglish
- IntermediateJapanese
- BasicHebrew · German
Talks 06
- 23 Mar 2025 Social Capital in Palestinian Civil Society 5th Annual Research Conference, JASR — Dokkyo University, Japan
- 15 Jul 2024 How Do Local NGOs Share Knowledge in Contexts of Resilience? 8th International PhD Seminar, ISTR — Antwerp, Belgium
- 07 May 2023 Trapped in Governance Dilemmas: Civil Society Organizations in Conflict-Affected Areas ISTR & Doha Institute Workshop on Governance without Government in the MENA Region — Doha, Qatar
- 14 Jul 2022 Palestinian Civil Society: The Dynamics of Palestinian CSOs in a Conflict Setting 15th International Conference of ISTR — Ontario, Canada
- 18 Jun 2019 Data Mining, Social Media, Revolutions, and Politics EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2019 — Barcelona, Spain
Scholarships & awards 07
- 2025–2027JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2025Development in Practice — Practitioner & Early Career Researcher Prize
- 20253rd JASR Encouragement Award
- 202422nd Japan NPO Society Encouragement Award
- 2020–2024MEXT Scholarship (Japan)
- 2017–2018HESPAL Scholarship (UK)
Memberships 08
- 2023–PresentISTR — International Society for Third-Sector Research
- 2022–PresentJANPORA — Japan NPO Research Association