Dr. Abi Yaghi is the co-director of the Center for Social Sciences Research and Action. As a co-director, where she ensures the scientific rigor of the contextualised research produced by a multidisciplinary team of scholars, while facilitating the insertion of homegrown research within global theoretical debates and fora.
Her research focuses on the sociology of political processes, contentious politics, and the social question in the MENA.
She has previously worked in academia (as a senior researcher at the Centre for Lebanese Studies, University of Oxford, and as a political science lecturer at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik and the Saint-Joseph University in Beirut), as well as in international organisations.
As a scholar, she specialised in the sociology of political processes, contentious politics, and the social question in the MENA.
She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
Her research focuses on the sociology of political processes, contentious politics, and the social question in the MENA.
She has previously worked in academia (as a senior researcher at the Centre for Lebanese Studies, University of Oxford, and as a political science lecturer at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik and the Saint-Joseph University in Beirut), as well as in international organisations.
As a scholar, she specialised in the sociology of political processes, contentious politics, and the social question in the MENA.
She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.