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Amal Bourhrous
POSITION AT SIPRI
Researcher
Amal Bourhrous
Amal Bourhrous is Researcher with the SIPRI Middle East and North Africa Programme. Her research interests include the dynamics of identity, citizenship and nation-building as they relate to statehood and sovereignty; the relationship between securitization trends and the political process; and the ways in which the wider geopolitical transformations and the new challenges to international security affect the MENA region.
Prior to joining SIPRI, Amal was a Programme Coordinator at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. She has also been a junior visiting researcher at the Centre for Strategic Studies in Amman, Jordan. Her MA thesis examined the interaction of religion and politics in Morocco.
Subject expertise
Democratic transitions, state and society, geopolitics of the MENA region
Regional expertise
Middle East and North Africa
CONTACT Amal Bourhrous
Languages
Arabic, French, English, Spanish, Turkish
Education
Master of Science in Political Science, Uppsala University, Sweden; Master’s degree in International Security, Sciences Po Paris, France; Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
Citizenship
Morocco
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Climate change and post-conflict reconstruction in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq (Blog, February 2023)
- Libya’s electoral limbo: The crisis of legitimacy (Blog, April 2022)
- War in the breadbasket: The impacts of the war in Ukraine on food security and stability in Lebanon (Blog, April 2022)
- Trust and coercion in times of emergency: COVID-19 and structures of authority in North Africa (Essay, August 2020)
- Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq: Agriculture, Cultural Practices and Social Cohesion (SIPRI, Stockholm:November 2022)
- Reform within the System: Governance in Iraq and Lebanon (SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2021)
- Fixing the Economy and Public Service Provision in Lebanon (SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2021)
- Conflict Mediation and Peacebuilding in the Sahel: The Role of Maghreb Countries in an African Framework (SIPRI, Stockholm:January 2021)
- Protest and State–Society Relations in the Middle East and North Africa (SIPRI, Stockholm:October 2020)
External publications
- Bourhrous, A. and O’Driscoll, D. ‘Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions’. Cooperation and Conflict (Jun 2023).
- Bourhrous, A. ‘Rainmaking Rituals in the Era of Climate Change: A Spatial Approach’. African Social Research (Jul 2023).
- Bourhrous, A. ‘Judith Shklar’. SEPAD Social Theory Series (Oct 2022)
- O'Driscoll, D. and Bourhrous, A., Occupying Space in the Kirkuk Bazaar: an intersectional analysis, Peacebuilding (Oct 2022).
- Bourhrous, A., Rebuilding Libya’s Economy on New and Sustainable Grounds, EuroMeSCo (Feb 2022).
- Bourhrous, A., 'The fate of Libyan women’s rights hangs in the balance', New African, 19 Oct. 2021
- Bourhrous, A., 'Peacebuilding paradigms: the impact of theoretical diversity on implementing sustainable peace', ed. Carey H. F., Peacebuilding, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK (2021).
- Bourhrous, A., 'More than Just Military Action Needed in the Sahel', GMF (Dec 2017).
- Bourhrous, A. and Smith, S., 'Strengthening youth engagement in post-Jasmine Revolution Tunisia', Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, development dialogue paper no. 19 (Aug 2016).