Maha Alkhomassy

I have a BA in Social Work from the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut. I am currently pursuing my master’s degree in the field of Migration Studies at LAU. My research interests include migration, gender, transnationalism, and public policy. I work as a research assistant for Professor Paul Tabar, director of the Migration Studies program. Recently, I was accepted for an internship at Issam Fares Institute at American University of Beirut for the Refugee Research and Policy in the Arab World Program.
Andrew Denison

Andrew Denison is a graduate student at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. He is currently completing his M.A. in migration studies. His research interests include return migration, multiculturalism, and using archives in teaching the history of the Lebanese diaspora. He is also conducting research for the Institute of Migration Studies in Beirut on the construction of and contestation over the refugee label in Lebanon.
Paul Tabar

Paul Tabar is the Chair of Humanities, the director of the Institute for Migration Studies and a Professor in Sociology/Anthropology at the Lebanese American University, Beirut campus. He is the author of Arab Communities in Australia (Arab Centre for Arab Unity Studies, 2013) and the co-author of On Being Lebanese in Australia: Identity, Racism and the Ethnic Field (Institute for Migration Studies, LAU, 2010), Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other (Institute of Criminology, 2004) and Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime (Pluto Australia, 2000). He is currently working on Lebanese diasporic communities and their diasporic public activities. He is also working on a book on migrant habitus focusing on second generation Lebanese Australians as a case study. Dr. Tabar has published many articles on Lebanese and Arab migrants in international journals. He is the editor of a book series on Migrant Studies in collaboration with Professor Anton Escher, Johannes Guttenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and a member of the editorial board on the Arab Journal of Sociology, Idafaat.