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Anna Jacobs

 

Anna Jacobs is co-editor of Muftah’s Egypt & North Africa pages and a graduate student in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Her primary interests include media, human rights, civil society development, and democratization in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on the politics of the Maghreb. Anna graduated from the University of Virginia in 2010 with degrees in political science and French literature and has conducted fieldwork over several years on the politics of migration in Algeria and Morocco. She was a Fulbright researcher in Morocco from 2011-2012 where she studied Arabic and examined civil society and the politics of institutional reform. Anna also co-founded a refugee legal aid initiative with the Moroccan NGO Droit et Justice. She splits her time between Oxford and Rabat and enjoys travelling all over the Middle East.

ARTICLES BY Anna Jacobs