About me
Making the EU accessible to a pan-European audience.
I edit, write, and lead the European Affairs team at the European Correspondent and covered EU policy at the (dark) heart of the EU bubble for 2 years. 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 all-nighter at the Parliament on election night- the European Affairs newsletter will cover it first thing, every Monday morning.
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 American/Chinese 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