Tamirace Fakhoury
Tamirace Fakhoury is an associate professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the American Lebanese University (LAU). She is the director of the Institute of Social Justice and Conflict Resolution and she is also member of the EuMedMi research network and the Global Migration Policy Associates of Geneva. She has received numerous research grants, including the Alexander von Humboldt grant of the German Institute of International Studies. She is currently the principal investigator of a Carnegie grant on “Resilience and Inclusive Governance in the post-2011 Arab Landscape” at American Lebanese University. She is also in the leadership team of the Rights for Time network. Between 2012 and 2016, she was a visiting assistant professor at the University of California in Berkeley. Fakhoury has a broad academic career focused on Euro-Mediterranean migration issues, migration policies and the role of immigrant communities. Her core research and publication areas are power-sharing and ethno-sectarian conflicts, migration and refugee governance in conflict areas, international responses to forced migration and the European Union’s external policy.