About me
Always on the move between Brussels and Istanbul, I cover Türkiye and EU policy to a pan-European audience.
Leading the Southern Europe and EU Affairs teams at the European Correspondent, I covered EU policy at the (dark) heart of the EU bubble: be it the birth, near-death experience and indefinite delay of the Nature Restoration Law, the prolonged controversy around the Migration and Asylum Pact or the late hours at the Parliament on election night.
I have a background on EU policy and the politics of the MENA region as a migration researcher. I wrote extensively on authoritarian governance in the Gulf countries, Turkish-Syrian border management, and developmental policies in the MENA region.
As a former first-generation student, the primary goal in my work is not only accessibility, but bottom-up approaches that embolden local perspectives. I used ethnographic methods and interviews to collect local data for my research, spoke on panels on the first-generation student experience, and built and designed a website to disseminate the lived experiences of people left behind by hostile migration policies in Morocco and Spain at abceuta.film