معرفی
Yafa El Masri is a Lecturer in Geography and Global Development at the School of Global Development, University of East Anglia. Her academic work is deeply informed by her identity as a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon, shaping her research on displacement, decoloniality, and community agency.
Education:
- PhD in Geographic Studies, University of Padova, Italy (2023)
- MSc in Local Development, University of Padova (2019)
- Galilean Diploma in Social Sciences, University of Padova (2020)
- BSc in Business Management, Beirut Arab University (2013)
Her research focuses on human geography, forced displacement, and decolonial knowledge production, with an emphasis on Palestinian refugee camps. She employs community-based, participatory, and autoethnographic methods to examine grassroots humanitarianism, radical food geographies, and alternative education systems. Her work contributes to Sustainable Development Goals on reduced inequalities, peace, and sustainable communities.
Her recent publications explore themes such as food as resistance, memory in exile, and decolonizing pedagogies, showing a strong trend toward centering refugee voices in academic and policy spaces. Her upcoming fellowship project, Can Refugees Save the World?, will further investigate community-led development models in refugee contexts.
Scientific Awards:
- European Union Scholarship for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
- Galilean Higher School of Education Scholarship
She is currently leading an externally funded fellowship project but no formal advisees are listed. Her work is supported by a strong network of collaborations and she actively contributes to decolonial and critical development discourse through publications and public engagement.
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