Soraya El Kahlaoui

Soraya El Kahlaoui holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Global fellow at Ghent University and Bir Zeit University, and her research examines the mechanisms of dispossession in the MENA region as well as the formation of property rights. This project aims to offer an innovative perspective on the dynamics of social and political transformation in the MENA region after 2011, with an emphasis on Morocco, Tunisia, and Palestine in particular. Furthermore, she produced the documentary Landless Moroccans and has written numerous articles, including the Journal of North African Studies article "Claiming their right to possess – The Guich Oudaya tribe's resistance to land grabbing." She is also the principal investigator of the Traab project (www.traab.com), which maps and visualizes property conflicts in North Africa.