Areas of Interest:

• Labor and Human Resources
• Development Economics
• Migration Economics
• Political Economy

Education:

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. 2017
• M.Phil. in International and Development Economics, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2013
• M.A. in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 2012
• B.A. in Economics, joint degree between the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Cairo University, 2011

Experience:

• Economist, Office of the Chief Economist of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region of the World Bank, Present
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Paris School of Economics, 2018
• Scientific coordinator, Dynamics department, Institut Convergences Migrations, 2018
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Strasbourg, 2017 - 2018
• Teaching and research fellow (ATER), Department of Economics, University of Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2016 - 2017
• Teaching assistant, Department of Economics, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2013 - 2016
• Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 2013 - 2018

• “Arab Spring Protests and Women Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Egyptian Revolution,” with Mathilde Maurel and Biagio Speciale, Journal of Comparative Economics, 46(2), June 2018, pp. 656-682
• “Upward or Downward: return migration and occupational mobility,” with Jackline Wahba, Economic Research Forum (ERF) Working Paper No. 1010, June 2016
• “Did the Egyptian Protests lead to change? Evidence from Egypt’s first free Presidential elections,” Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne (CES) Working Paper No. 2017-44, October 2017 R&R Journal of Comparative Economics
• “Syrian Refugees and the Migration Dynamics of Jordanians: Moving in or moving out,” with Jackline Wahba, Economic Research Forum (ERF) Working Paper No. 1133, April 2018