I am a PhD Candidate at Cardiff University. My research is fully funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and their Doctoral Training Partnership program. My research analyses the securitisation of terrorism in Tunisia and the way in which the terrorist threat is instrumentalised by the state to reintroduce illiberal and authoritarian practices associated with the former Ben Ali regime. I am a steering committee member of the ISRU (Cardiff University International Studies Research Unit), I run the ISRU blog and website.

I have a masters with honors from Sciences Po Bordeaux in Politics and Development Policy in Africa and the Global South (Politique et développement en Afrique et les pays du sud). During this masters I completed a risk assessment report on Haiti for the World Bank.

I have two undergraduate degrees - a politics and international relations degree from Cardiff University and a politics degree from Sciences Po Bordeaux. I achieved First Class Honours in both these degrees.

In 2014 I won the Cardiff University Undergraduate Student of the Year Scholarship.

My area of academic interest is post Arab spring politics in the Maghreb. I have completed extensive research on the role of negotiations in the 2014 Tunisian constitution. I am currently researching the potential for democratic consolidation in Tunisia and the threat posed by anti-terror legislation. I have written research articles in many areas including the Kurdish question, securitization of political Islam, the Democracy/Islam question, urban management in Sub Saharan Africa and collective action and unionism in the developing world.

I have work experience in marketing, media, translation and publishing roles. I have also interned in political offices for elected officials. I speak English, French and I have started started to learn arabic.