Hala ABOU ZAKI

Sociology & Anthropology

Hold a PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, in Paris, member of the Institut Inerdisciplinaire d’Anthropolologie du Contemporain (LAUM-IIAC). Her PhD research focuses on the sociopolitical and urban transformation of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Lebanon from its foundation in the late 1940s until today, and how it has impacted people’s and family’s trajectories and the camp social fabric.

Projects

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Family-making across borders: Conflicts, migrations and Palestinian family dispersion

As part of the LAJEH project, I will work on Palestinian refugee’s families from Shatila camp who have been scattered across Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Gaza during the 1970s and the 1990s and more recently Switzerland with the events in Syria. I will research how the different members of the f ..