AssociateEditor: 𝐃𝐫. 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚 𝐄𝐥 𝐊𝐚𝐡𝐥𝐚𝐨𝐮𝐢 (
@SorayaKahlaoui)
She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and is currently a researcher at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (
@ifporient) – Palestine. Her work explores the politics of land, dispossession, and property regimes in the MENA region, with a particular focus on Morocco, Tunisia, and Palestine. She previously held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship jointly hosted by Ghent University and Birzeit University. In addition to her academic work, she directed the documentary Landless Moroccans and leads the Traab project. This counter-mapping initiative documents land struggles and property conflicts across the region. Her research combines ethnography, visual methods, and digital tools to shed new light on the social and political forces shaping space and belonging.
See more:
ifporient.org/soraya-el-kahl…