Authors

Mayssa Jallad and Nikolay Mintchev

Mayssa Jallad is a research assistant at the American University of Beirut. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the American University of Beirut, and a Master’s in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. She is also a singer-songwriter and is currently based in Beirut.

Nikolay Mintchev is Research Associate at the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London and the RELIEF Centre. Having trained as a social anthropologist, he has a long-established interest in ethnographic methods and in methodological innovation in the social sciences. His current work is on the way in which locally relevant and context-specific understandings of prosperity can be used to inform urban initiatives for better quality of life.

ARTICLES BY Mayssa Jallad and Nikolay Mintchev