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Shahd Qannam

Research Student

The City Law School Academic law programmes

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Shahd Qannam
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Shahd completed her MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and her BA in Human Rights and International Law from al-Quds Bard College. Shahd's research interests lie in the fields of human rights law, refugee law, statelessness law, and international humanitarian law.

Prior to joining City, Shahd worked as a legal researcher for NGOs and interned at several intergovernmental and international organisations, including the Office of the European Union Representative (West Bank and Gaza Strip, UNRWA) and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion.

Shahd's thesis is supervised by Dr. Mazen Masri and Dr. Adrienne Yong.

Qualifications

  • MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • BA Human Rights and International Law, Bard College, United States

Languages

Arabic, English, Hebrew and Spanish - Latin American (can read and understand spoken).

Professional activities

Events/conferences (5)

  • The Learning Exchange Webinar. Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) and the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) (Online) (2019). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Palestinian Access to Nationality in Israel, Palestine, and Host Arab States.
    Author: Qannam, Shahd
  • Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Graduate Colloquium. (Seminar) Oxford, United Kingdom (2019). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Urban Planning and the Displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem
    Author: Qannam, Shahd
  • International Smolny Academic Conference. (Conference) Saint Petersburg, Russia (2018). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Climate-Induced Displacement in International Law: The Status of Environmentally Displaced Persons.
    Author: Qannam, Shahd
  • Bard Get Engaged Conference. (Conference) Budapest, Hungary (2017).
    Paper: Global Responsibility and the Right to Nationality
  • Resistance and Empire: New approaches and comparisons. (Conference) (2016).
    Paper: Writing Jerusalem. A Bio-Dictionary for a Capital Ghost Town