Marina Zaki is a Master of Arts student in political science at the University of Toronto, with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours in political science and a minor in economics from McGill University. Her current research revolves around studying the dynamics of refugee integration in host societies, focusing on the cases of Syrian and Sudanese refugees in Egypt. Marina worked as a comparative politics staff writer for the McGill Journal of Political Studies and she currently works as a teaching assistant in the department of political science at the University of Toronto. Originally from Egypt, Marina is deeply interested in Middle Eastern politics, especially in the post-Arab Spring dynamics, notably securitization and radicalism, as well as in studying marginalized ethnic and religious minorities in the Global South.
You can contact Marina at marinasharkawy1234@gmail.com or www.linkedin.com/in/marina-zaki