FMHT Hosts Talk on the Future of Citizenship in the Middle East
The Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking (FMHT), a research initiative at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a November 12, 2018 talk entitled “Perspectives on the Future of Citizenship in the Middle East.” The event was also sponsored by the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies, Boston University’s International Human Rights Clinic.
The panel included Zahra Albarazi, Senior Researcher at the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion and PhD Researcher at the Tilburg School of Law, and Lillian Frost, Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative and PhD Candidate at the George Washington University. The conversation was moderated by Fateh Azzam, an independent consultant and researcher specializing in human rights.
Albarazi’s work specialises on the nexus between statelessness and forced displacement, and the interlink between discrimination and statelessness. She
holds an LLM in International Law from Leeds University.
Frost’s research examines variations in the sets of rights and forms of citizenship statuses host states offer to protracted refugee groups, including shifts in formal laws and how these laws are enforced in practice.
Azzam’s background includes work for the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the American University in Cairo, the Ford Foundation, and Al-Haq.
The Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking (FMHT) brings together students, scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to support research, education,and advocacy on the pressing issues of forced migration and human trafficking. Follow their activities on Facebook and Twitter.