Muzna Al-Masri is an anthropologist, researcher and consultant. Her research interests include everyday political practice, clientelism, and the intersection of conflict and politics with humanitarian aid and energy. She holds a Master in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding from the Eastern Mennonite University and a PhD in Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has held postdoctoral fellowships from the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (2016-2017) and the Orient-Institut Beirut (2018) and is currently a Ford Foundation Global Fellow (2020-2021) and has taught at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also co-founding member of the Ethnography as knowledge in the Arab World Working Group.
Zeina Abla has 20 years of research and consultancy experience in development studies covering Lebanon and Arab countries. She focuses on socio-economic policy-oriented analysis, gender, labor issues, conflict dynamics, the global development agenda. She is currently interested in the political economy of the environment. Previously, she worked in economic research in the banking sector. Zeina has a Master in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Dana Abi Ghanem has a PhD from Newcastle University. She has over 15 years of academic research experience. Her work falls broadly on the topic of energy and society, with a focus on everyday life, consumption, and the lived experiences of infrastructure in urban contexts. Dana is interested in exploring urban sustainability, particularly focused on community resilience and access to services under constraints (disaster, extreme events and conflict). Her research has been published in several journals including Energy Policy, Energy Research & Social Sciences, and in the Journal of Environmental Management amongst others.