These are the papers I have presented at various international academic conferences.
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2024 | SWISS INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
'EU geopolitics and diplomacy in the face of refugee returns from Lebanon to Syria' (at the 'Interregional dynamics of Syrian refugee return')
2022 | EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
'Strategic ignorance and the legitimation of remote warfare: the Hawija bombardments' (at the 'Interventions and ignorance: the production and circulation of non-knowledge in and through external intervention' panel I co-hosted)
2022 | KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (ONLINE)
'The Convenience of Contigency and the Intractability of Intent - Reflections on Lebanese Refugee Governance and the Agency of Non-Knowledge' (at the workshop 'Global Politics of Non-Knowledge: Borders, Power, Technology')
2022 | INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ONLINE)
'Unpacking Lebanon's Hybrid Migration State: Institutional Ambiguity beyond Failure and Fragility' (in the panel 'Widening Research on Migration States: New Insights from the Global South')
2021 | GOVERNANCE AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (ONLINE)
'Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty - Refugee Governance in Lebanon' (at the 'Bureaucratic Performance and Informal Spaces' workshop in the 'Governance, People, and Space' series)
2021 | EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ONLINE)
'The Agnopolitics of Refoulement: European Externalization and Syrian Refugee Return' (at the 'Regimes of power/(non)knowledge in governing borders and mobility' panel)
2021 | EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL RESEARCH (ONLINE)
'Uncertainty, Exhaustion, Abandonment - Leveraging the Idea of Strategic Institutional Ambiguity to Interrogate South/North Distinctions in Forced Migration Studies' (at the 'Theorizing Immigration Politics: Insights from the Global South' panel)
2021 | ROYAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY (ONLINE)
'Affective Economies and Epistemic Politics in Migration Research' (with Leonie Ansems de Vries and Nadine Voelkner at the 'Bordering through Affect and Epistemics' panel we convened)
2021 | UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG (ONLINE)
'Local authority in informal Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon: divide-and-rule under a regime of institutional ambiguity' (at the REFUGOV 'Camps Across the World' conference)
2020 | CENTRE FOR GLOBAL COOPERATION RESEARCH - UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG-ESSEN (ONLINE)
'EU policy engagement with contested refugee returns in regional host states' (with Tamirace Fakhoury, at the author's workshop 'Governing Refugee Returns in the International System')
2020 | KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN AND UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN (ONLINE)
'Affective Relationalities and Epostemic Politics in Migration Research' (at the seminar 'Bordering through affect and epistemics - emerging notions in migration research' that I co-convened)
2020 | KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (ONLINE)
'The Agnopolitics of Refoulement. EUrope's Strategic Ignorance and Productive Ambiguity and Syrian Refugee Returns' (at the seminar 'Regimes of power/(non-)knowledge in governing borders and mobility')
2020 | UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW (ONLINE)
'Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty. Refugee Governance in Lebanon' (Expected Inequalities and Unexpected Symmetries conference, Refugee Crises panel)
2020 | UNIVERSITE DE NEUCHATEL
'Uncertainty, Abandonment, Exhaustion - Leveraging the notion of strategic institutional ambiguity to interrogate South/North distinctions in forced migration studies' (at the workshop Social Marginality and Banishment)
2019 | UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG
'Uncertainty, Abandonment, Exhaustion - Leveraging the notion of strategic institutional ambiguity to interrogate South/North distinctions in forced migration studies' (at the workshop Emerging Notions in Geographical Research on Forced Migration and Borders)
2019 | ROYAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY LONDON
2019 | IMISCOE
Institutional Ambiguity and the Politics of Uncertainty: Introducing a New Perspective on Refugee Governance (at the workshop Illegibility in Migration Regimes)
2019 | UTRECHT UNIVERSITY
The PLO's trajectory from de facto sovereingty to marginalized mimicry in Lebanon: legal identity and the politics of administration (at the workshop Legal Identity Under Rebel Governance)
2019 | THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE GENEVA
Strategic Institutional Ambiguity in Lebanon: What the Governance of Refugees Can Tell Us about the Functionality of Disorder (at the workshop Democracy and Disorder - Political Unpredictability, Illiberal Governance and Prospects for Democratic Voice)
2018 | EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Part of a panel I convened titled 'Refugee Governance in Europe and 'the Region:' Making Sense of 'No-Policy-Policies and Violent Inaction'
2018 | DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ASSOCIATION
‘We’re not supposed to understand!' Refugee Governance and the Politics of Uncertainty in Lebanon
2017 | EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
The Causes, Characteristic and Consequences of Informality in Lebanon’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis – An Agnotological Reading of Institutional Ambiguity (with Jessy Nassar)
Part of a panel I convened titled 'The Politics of Ignorance, Ambiguity and Uncertainty: Furthering an Inter-Disciplinary Development of Agnotology'
2017 | GOVERNANCE AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
2017 | CULTURES, CITIZENSHIP, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
I was co-organizer of the seminar 'Migrant Ethnographies: Academic and Activist Methods, Challenges and Perspectives.'
2017 | CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
2016 | CENTRE FOR CONFLICT STUDIES
From State-Within-the-State to Mediated Stateness: PLO Governance in Lebanon
2016 | RESISTANCE(S): BETWEEN THEORIES AND THE FIELD
2015 | SERVICE PROVISION IN A CHANGING ARAB WORLD
2014 | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION
2014 | GLOBAL BUSINESS, EMERGING MARKETS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Business in Genocide – Understanding the How and Why of Corporate Complicity in Genocides
2013 | G20 YOUTH FORUM
Governance and Government in the Arab Spring Hybridity: Reflections from Lebanon
2012 | DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE
The Eye of the Beholder: Service Provision and State Legitimacy in Burundi
2012 | VIOLENT CONFLICT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT