Every border, every list and every law draws a line somewhere, and I have spent the better part of a decade studying the people who live on the far side of it. My work centres on people at the margins and the systems that decide who belongs. It spans security, rights, gender, sexuality and migration. Since 2018 I have collaborated with NGOs, INGOs, UN agencies and governmental institutions across MENA/SWANA and Southern Europe on gender, minority rights and intersectional vulnerability. My current PhD at Adelaide University, Governing Suspicion: Proscription and Everyday Citizenship in Tunisia, France and Australia, extends this concern to counter-terrorism. It examines how the design of a state's terrorism lists shapes the belonging of Muslim, migrant and activist communities, and it offers the first systematic scholarly treatment of Tunisian proscription.
 
This commitment began with my MA in Humanitarian Action, where my thesis analysed French political attitudes and policy towards immigrants with disabilities and chronic illnesses. For nearly three years, alongside my Master's degree, I worked at the University of Malta as a Research Support Officer II in the Department of International Relations, studying civil society dynamics in the Arab world. I also served as a contributing lecturer in the Department of Gender and Sexualities. Before that, I worked as a project and research officer, translator, interpreter and proofreader with feminist and queer rights organisations across the region, and with international bodies from Lawyers Without Borders to UNHCR.
 
What distinguishes my research is the combination of scholarship, practice and access. I work in Arabic, French and English, so I can read sources and conduct fieldwork in the languages of the communities I study. My expertise has led to invitations to speak at the EUROPRIDE Human Rights Conference, the World Refugee Day conference in Malta, and Malta's SOGIGESC Unit annual human rights conference. I bring this work to academic, policy and practitioner audiences on both sides of the Mediterranean and beyond.