These are the peer-reviewed journal articles I have published.

They are available online through the hyperlinks provided. If you experience problems accessing them, I will happily provide them to you by email if you send me a request via contact@norastel.com

I have written book reviews for Middle East Policy, Antipode and International Migration Review

I have acted as a peer reviewer for the following journals: and publishers

• Africa Journal
• Anthropological Quarterly
• Antipode
• Area
• British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
• Conflict and Society
• Crime Media Culture
• Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
• Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice
• Geopolitics
• Global Policy
• International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
• International Political Sociology
• International Studies Quarterly
• Journal of Human Rights
• Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
• Journal of Illicit Economies and Development
• Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
• Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
• Journal of Refugee Studies
• Journal of Urban Affairs
• Middle East Journal
• Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Political Geography
• Politics
• Politics and Governance
• Review of International Political Economy
• Small Business Economics
• Social and Cultural Geography
• Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
• Territory Politics Governance
• International Spectator
• Third World Quarterly

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2023     |    MIGRATION POLITICS

Strategic Non-Regulation as Migration Governance (with Katharina Natter and Kelsey P. Norman)

2022     |    GEOPOLITICS

EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience (with Tamirace Fakhoury)

2021     |    SECURITY DIALOGUE

Strategic Ignorance and the Legitimation of Remote Warfare: The Hawija Bombardments (with Lauren Gould)

2021     |    POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Uncertainty, Exhaustion, and Abandonment beyond South/North Divides: Governing Forced Migration Through Strategic Ambiguity

2020     |    SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS

Refugee Entrepreneurship: Context and Directions for Future Research (with Sameeksha Desai and Wim Naudé)

2019     |    POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Lebanon's Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis - Institutional Ambiguity as a Governance Strategy (with Jessy Nassar)

2017     |    CIVIL WARS

Mediated Stateness as a Continuum: Exploring the Changing Governance Relations between the PLO and the Lebanese State

2017     |    JOURNAL OF INTERVENTION AND STATEBUILDING

Political Parties and Minority Governance in Hybrid Political Orders – Reflections from Lebanon’s Palestinian Settlements and Kosovo’s Serbian Enclaves (with Chris van der Borgh) 

2016     |    ANTIPODE

The Agnotology of Eviction in South Lebanon’s Palestinian Gatherings. How Institutional Ambiguity and Deliberate Ignorance Shape Sensitive Spaces

2016     |    JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES

Organized Chaos: Informal Institution Building Among Palestinian Refugees in the Maashouk Gathering in South Lebanon (with Nasser Yassin and Rima Rassi)

2016     |    DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE

Languages of Stateness in South Lebanon’s Palestinian Gatherings: The PLO’s Popular Committees as Twilight Institutions

2016     |    JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Public-Private Entanglement’: Entrepreneurship in Lebanon’s Hybrid Political Order (with Wim Naudé)

2016     |    ANTIPODE

Review Essay – Institutionalized Ignorance and Manufactured Oblivion: Reading Noga Kadman’s Erased from Space and Consciousness from an agnotological perspective

2015     |    CONFLICT, SECURITY & DEVELOPMENT

Environmental Vulnerability as a Legacy of Violent Conflict: A Case Study of the 2012 Waste Crisis in the Palestinian Gathering of Shabriha, South Lebanon (with Irna van der Molen)

2015     |    BRITISH JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

The 'Children of the State?’ How Palestinians from the Seven Villages Negotiate Sect, Party and State in Lebanon

2015     |    MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS

Lebanese-Palestinian Governance Interaction in the Palestinian Gathering of Shabriha, South Lebanon – A Tentative Extension of the ‘Mediated State’ from Africa to the Mediterranean

2014     |    AFRICA SPECTRUM

The Eye of the Beholder: Service Provision and State Legitimacy in Burundi (with Réginas Ndayiragije)

2014     |    CONTEMPORARY READINGS IN LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Governance and Government in the Arab Spring Hybridity: Reflections from Lebanon

2014     |    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

Between Control and Cooperation. Multi-Stakeholder Service Provision and the Legitimacy of State Institutions in Ethiopia’s Amhara National Regional State (with Fenta Mandefro Abate)

2013     |    JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Entrepreneurs in the Dark: The Impact of Fragile and Hybrid Governance on Lebanese Entrepreneurship - A Case Study of the Electricity Sector

2013     |    MIDDLE EAST POLICY

Review Essay: Lebanon – The Challenge of Moving Governance Analysis Beyond the State (with Georg Frerks)