Gabriella Nassif

Gabriella Nassif.

Gabriella Nassif focuses on issues of labor, gender and development in the Arab region with a specific focus on Lebanon.

She has spent the last few years living between Buffalo, N.Y. and Beirut, Lebanon where she works with the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) and teaches undergraduate courses at the Lebanese American University.

In Beirut, she has worked as an independent research consultant to a number of organizations, including UN Women, UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the UN Population Fund both in Lebanon and the regional office in Cairo.

Gabriella received a dissertation fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to support her research on migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. 

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