A little about me

I am a doctoral candidate and course lecturer at the Department of Political Science at McGill University, with expertise in comparative politics, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) politics, methodology and international relations. I am currently finalizing my dissertation on authoritarian responses to protests, based on a multisite fieldwork, extensive archival research and an original catalogue of protests.​I am also a Research Associate, Middle East and North Africa at the Montreal Center for International Studies (CERIUM, Université de Montréal).

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I bring my research interests into the classroom, where I teach courses in comparative politics, international relations, development, and methodology. Although my graduate degree is specialized in political science, my courses and research draw from anthropology, international law, media studies, sociology, economics, history, postcolonial and feminist theories. My teaching is grounded in emancipatory and experiential pedagogy. I seek to provide students with the analytical and methodological resources to think critically about questions that animate social sciences. I encourage them to revisit their own understanding of what constitutes politics and valid scientific knowledge, especially when discussing issues such as inequality, domination and deviance or communities whose voices are underrepresented in academia. I am also convinced that promoting knowledge circulation - beyond the traditional classroom - and fostering mutually beneficial partnerships with civil society actors are conducive to high-quality research.  

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