Lina Abou-Habib

Lina Abou-Habib (Lebanon) is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Issam Fares Institute, American University of Beirut and the senior Gender Research Consultant with the Euromed Feminist Initiative. Abou-Habib is also a strategic MENA advisor for the Global Fund for Women and member of the editorial board of Oxfam’s journal, Gender and Development. She has published several research articles in international journals on action-oriented research on the impact of the denial of citizenship rights to women in MENA countries; active citizenship and gendered social entitlements in Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt; and topics related to women's political participation, invisible care work, economic contribution in rural communities and access to markets, faith-based organizations, migrant women and refugees, and women in post-war Lebanon.