Presentations & Research

Selected Presentations

Public Talks

Wilson Center

7 August 2024; Washington, D.C.

• Title: Arab Barometer 2024 Gender Report Launch
• Available online here.

20 March 2023; Washington, D.C.

• Title: Unleashing Women Entrepreneurship in MENA
• Available online here.

American University of Beirut

8 March 2023; Beirut, Lebanon (remote)

• Title: Access to the Digital World: Pathway to Gender Equality in the Arab World
• Available online here.

World Bank

9 February 2023; Washington, D.C.

• Title: How Can Facts Help Us Bring Women into the Workforce in MENA? Learning from a decade of Arab Barometer data

Middle East Institute

20 October 2022; Washington, D.C.

• Title: Attitudes and Trends Towards Gender in the Middle East
• Available online here.

United Nations

14 September 2021; New York City, New York (remote)

• Title: Women and COVID-19 in MENA

Academic Conferences

European Political Science Association, 2023

22-24 June 2023; Glasgow, Scotland

• Chair & Discussant
  • Symposium: New Developments in Text Analysis
• Presenter: Natural Language Processing for Short Survey Responses
  • Symposium: Improving Survey Research Methods

World Association for Public Opinion Research, 2022

10-13 November 2022; Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Chair, Discussant, Presenter: Natural Language Processing for Short Survey Responses
  • Panel: Big Data, Sentiment Analysis, and Machine Learning

Selected Writings

Arab Barometer

• “Gender Attitudes and Trends in MENA: The Effects of Working Women”
  • Published 7 August 2024, Arab Barometer Topic Report
  • Link to full report.
• “What the Lebanese People Really Think of Hezbollah”
  • Published 12 July 2024, Foreign Affairs
  • Co-Auther: Michael Robbins
  • Link to the full article.
• “How the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza Is Changing Arab Views”
  • Published 14 December 2023, Foreign Affairs
  • Co-Authers: Michael Robbins, Amaney Jama, Salma Al-Shami, Mark Tessler
  • Link to the full article.
• “Female Political Participation Inspires Confidence In Female Political Leadership in MENA”
  • Published 6 March 2023
  • Link to the full blog.
  • Link to the press release.
• “Citizens Lukewarm on Leaders’ Cold War”
  • Published 15 September 2023
  • Link to the full blog.
• Arab Barometer Country Report: Lebanon, Wave VII
  • Published September 2022
  • Link to full report.
• Arab Barometer Topic Report: Gender Attitudes and Trends in MENA, Wave VII
  • Published 26 September 2022
  • Link to full report.
• “Bearing the Brunt: COVID’s Impact on MENA Women at Home and at Work”
  • Published 23 July 2021
  • Link to the full blog.

Academic Papers

Papers available upon request.

• “Non-Consecutive Executives: Changing Preferences in a Chaning World”
  • Under review
• “Natural Language Processing for Short Survey Responses”
  • Working paper
• “How Women Become Politicians”
  • Working paper
• “Competition and Cohesion Among Elites in Authoritarian Legislatures”
  • Working paper