Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of International Relations & Political Science at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). I earned a PhD in political science from Stanford University in 2020. I previously served as a predoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative and a postdoctoral associate in the Princeton University Department of Near Eastern Studies. At the Graduate Institute, I serve as a faculty affiliate at the Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.
My research examines how local political institutions and elites shape broader patterns of state-building in the modern Middle East. My book project, scheduled for publication in December 2026 with Columbia University Press, focuses on how local governance shaped broader state-society relations during and after civil war in Lebanon. My other work has been published in the Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Party Politics, Journal of Peace Research, PS: Political Science & Politics, and Politics and Religion.
My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the University of Gothenburg Program on Governance and Local Development, the Stanford Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the Freeman Spogli Institute, and the Stanford King Center on Global Development. My work has also been featured in media outlets such as the Washington Post, Middle East Monitor, An-Nahar, Raseef22, and the Project on Middle East Political Science’s podcast.