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Bio:

I have worked internationally for over a decade in prestigious universities and institutions, including the University of Oxford, the University of Glasgow, UN Women, the EU Delegation to Syria, the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, the International Science Council, and the UK University of Sanctuary. I also serve as Co-Lead of the Global Young Academy鈥檚 At-Risk Scholars Initiative and as a Steering Committee Member of the Science in Exile Initiative.

My research focuses on development studies through a gender lens, with particular attention to women鈥檚 empowerment and its critical role in rural development. I highlight the many contributions women make in sustaining their households and communities. In my book聽The Role of Women in Domestic Economics, the first academic reference on women and domestic economics published in Syria, I explore how women significantly contribute across various sectors (economy, agriculture, health, environment, education, etc.) through their effective management of household responsibilities. This book was recognized as the Best Book 9 1免费版下 Women in 2010 by the Arab Women Organization of the Arab League.

Since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011, my research has increasingly focused on peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and socio-economic justice. I also work to improve the livelihoods and food security of conflict-affected households, particularly internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, women and girls, and women-headed households. This includes examining refugee policies and political frameworks in host countries.

Teaching :

Data For Development (Fall-2025 COURSE- INTD 3106)

This course will prepare students with essential competencies and career-ready skills for roles in development agencies, NGOs, government bodies, and research institutions.

Studying Data for Development will equip students with:

• Practical skills in data analysis tailored to development contexts
• The ability to work with real-world datasets to inform policymaking
• A deep understanding of how data-driven decision-making addresses global development challenges

Security, Peacebuilding and Development (Fall-2025 COURSE- INTD 4002 )

This interdisciplinary course explores the interconnected themes of security, peacebuilding, and development, with the Middle East as a central case study. It provides students with a theoretically grounded and critical understanding of how global power dynamics, historical injustices, and geopolitical interests contribute to protracted conflicts and forced migration. A distinctive feature of the course is its consistent application of a gender lens across all topics. Students will be encouraged to critically engage with concepts of justice, resistance, and the prospects for sustainable peace in contexts of enduring crisis.

Recent Publishing:

聽鈥樷�橳he Value-added of Women鈥檚 Participation in Conflict Prevention鈥� a policy brief sponsored by UN Women and Global Network for Women Peacebuilders GNWP, 2024.

鈥樷�榁iolence and Refugee Women鈥檚 Resilience: Syrian Refugee Women in Lebanon During COVID -19.鈥欌赌�. Special Issue 鈥楪ender and Violence in a Migration and Refugee Context: Agency, Resilience and Resistance.鈥� Canadian Ethnic Studies. VOL. 55, NO. 3, 2024.聽聽

聽鈥樷�橳he Refugee Crisis鈥欌赌�. A Chapter to Fragility of the Lebanese State.鈥欌赌� 聽Lexington Books 2024. 聽

Co-author. 鈥樷�橲cholars-at-Risk: challenges facing humanity, can science diplomacy help鈥欌赌�.

鈥淲hen the Coping Strategies Become a Way of Life:聽 A Gendered Analysis of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon鈥�. Oxford Development Studies Journal. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600818.2022.2096210?src=

Saja, Al Zoubi and Humam Wardeh 鈥楽ocio-Economic Challenges and Demographic Changes Arising from Internal Displacement in Syria: A Gender Analysis鈥欌赌�. Researching internal displacement and University of London. https://researchinginternaldisplacement.org/working-papers/socio-economic-challenges-and-demographic-changes-arising-from-internal-displacement-in-syria/

Caroline Krafft, Bilal Malaeb, Saja Al Zoubi. 鈥淗ow do policy approaches affect refugee economic outcomes? Insights from studies of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon鈥欌赌�. Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Vol. 38, No. 3: Forced Migration.

聽鈥樷�機onducting Research While Death Surrounds you: the Researcher, Gender and War in Syria鈥欌赌�.聽 A chapter to an edited volume Politics of Engaged Transformative Gender Research. Bloomspury, US. https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/politics-of-engaged-gender-research-in-the-arab-region-9780755645220/

聽Al Zoubi, Saja, Aden Aw-Hassan and Boubaker Dhaibi. 鈥淓nhancing the Livelihoods and Food Security of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.鈥欌赌� ICARDA and TWAS Working Paper, 2019.

聽Co-author. 鈥淩apid Assessment of Livelihoods and Market Value Chains for Improving the Welfare of the Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Bekaa, Lebanon鈥�. ICARDA and CARITAS Switzerland Working Paper, forthcoming, 2019.