I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at the Paris School of Economics, supervised by Hillel Rapoport, with Marco Tabellini and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya on my thesis committee. 

My research lies at the intersection of migration, economic history, political economy, and applied microeconomics. My job market paper uses unique historical data to study the legal construction of whiteness in twentieth-century America, showing how a 1915 ruling that classified Arabs as white shaped their assimilation efforts. 

Other projects examine colorism in football using a novel machine-learning skin tone algorithm, peer effects in university track choice using Swedish administrative data, academic networks and migration after the fall of the Iron Curtain using scholarly big data, and gender stereotypes in popular song lyrics through text analysis.

In addition, I am developing a broader research agenda on identity and diaspora politics. I study how sectarian identities evolve upon migration and how shocks—both in the home and host countries—affect identity salience and political mobilization, with a focus on Arab diasporas in the United States and Argentina.

News

🔍 I'm on the 2025-2026 job market!  

🏅My Job Market Paper won the MinE Award presented at the European Economic Association Congress and funded by the Hub of Equal Representation at LSE

👩🏽‍🏫2024-2025: Visiting Fellow at Boston University (hosted by Benjamin Marx) and Harvard Business School (hosted by Marco Tabellini)

👩🏽‍🏫 2023: Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Growth Lab (hosted by Ricardo Hausmann)

🏷️Affiliations: SoBigData, Institut Convergences Migrations, and the Swedish Institute for Social Research. Teaching Assistant at Sciences Po