Meet the team

She is a trustee of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and a founder of its sub-committee for academic freedom in the Arab region.
Her forthcoming publications include a book titled: Palestinian Refugees. The politics of exile and the politics of return (with Sophie Richter-Devroe) (Cambridge University Press), in 2017 , and a special issue on “Palestine and Self-determination beyond National Frames: Emerging Politics, Cultures, and Claims” for the journal South Atlantic Quarterly, which will be out in 2018.

Marc Schade-Poulsen holds an MA and Ph.D in Anthropology. He has lectured, researched and published extensively on issues related to human rights, migration, Islamism, popular culture and youth in the Middle East and North Africa as well as on the EU Mediterranean relations.

programs. Before joining Crisis Group, he headed the Iran project at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, DC. Trained as a scientist, Vaez has more than a decade of experience in journalism. He has written
widely on Iranian affairs and is a regular contributor to mainstream media outlets. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University from 2008 to 2010 and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Geneva and a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Karima’s research and scientific publications focus on the exploration of factors contributing to maternal deaths in childbirth, among other topics related to women’s health. A firm believer in the contribution of art for change, Karima is a founding board member of the Egyptian arts endowment initiative Madad and the Townhouse Gallery.
She is also a trustee of the Friends of Ahmed Baha el Din Foundation, Studio Emadeddine and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.”



She is the author of Contested State Identities and Regional Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area (Palgrave, 2006), the co-editor of The Convergence of Civilizations: Constructing a Mediterranean Region (with E. Adler, B. Crawford and F. Bicch; Toronto University Press, 2006), and the editor of Fragmented Borders, Interdependence, and External Relations: The Israel-Palestine-European Union Triangle (Palgrave, 2015). Her book Israel Under Siege: The Politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right is forthcoming with Georgetown University Press.