CONSORTIUM

Gianluca Gatta, PhD, anthropologist, is co-founder of the Archive of migrant memories (AMM). He has taught in Italy and Japan, and researched on migration, body and power; places and sociability; memory, self-narration and migrant subjectivity.

Alessandro Triulzi, former Professor of Sub-Saharan African History and Director of PhD Programme in African Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, is president of AMM. He researched on twentieth-century Ethiopian history, colonial memory and postcolonial violence.

Marina Mazzoni has been Project manager for international NGOs in Western Balkans and Tanzania over the last 15 years. She has conducted needs assessments and capacity building programmes. She currently works as project manager and fund raiser for AMM.

Photographer, editor and video-maker, Federico is part of the association AMM Archivio Memorie Migranti for which he makes documentaries, video productions and educational workshops in schools aimed at spreading the culture of reception and learning the methodologies of visual narration (video and photography).

An anthropologist with a PhD in Theories and Practices of Social Anthropology, after dedicating herself to research for a few years she chose to specialise in the non-profit sector, focusing on social communication. She has worked for over ten years in the third sector, dealing with communication and fundraising for various organisations. She is also a translator, with several collaborations to her credit including a decade with the magazine Internazionale.

A Somali journalist, he currently works as cultural mediator and filmmaker. Among his relevant productions: “To whom it may concern” in which he remembers the island as a place of exclusion rather than arrival. Four years later he returns to Lampedusa as a free man, recalling his stay at the reception centre searching for lost memories and “Benevenuti in Italia” a film that narrates the stories of 5 migrants settled in 5 different Italian cities.

Catherine Therrien is a Canadian anthropologist living in Morocco since 2001. She is Adjunct Professor at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI). Her research interests focus on identity, migration, mixedness, family and transnationalism.

Kenza Oumlil is an Associate Professor in Communication at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Oumlil holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. She has published widely on representation, gender, and media.

El Makhtar Rhannai, Payroll and Accounting Manager at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. He has been responsible of the financial management of various European funded projects mainly under the programmes Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+.

Rachid Daoudi is Project Officer at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. He is in charge of supporting the implementation of European funded projects mainly under the programmes Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+. He is also a PhD student at the USMBA, Fez, Morocco.

Catherine Phipps is a PhD student in history at the University of Oxford. Her work examines the intimate aspects of French colonial rule in North Africa, particularly interracial relationships and sex work.

Rustam B. Rustamov has specialized in space instrumentation and remote sensing and GIS technology. He has graduated PhD at the Russian Physical-Technical Institute (S. Petersburg). The main projects where Rustam B. Rustamov nominated as manager were related to the Earth study by use of space technology advances.

Rovshan Karimov is a PhD in geography and occupies a position of principal investigator at IGAZ. He has been involved in projects or served as a focal point through working with UNDP, UNEP, GIZ, Erasmus+ and SCOPES.

Rovshan Abbasov is a PhD in Geography, and has an experience in working with floods, mudflows and disaster risk reduction, and social problems of mountain rural communities. Former visiting Fulbright scholar, he has served also as a consultant at many projects funded by UNDP, UNICEF, GIZ and others.

Natavan Jafarova is a PhD in geography and a GIS specialist. Her scientific works and activities under various projects have been devoted mainly to distribution of population, settlements and mapping in geographical studies.

Valentina Napolitano is a sociologist, researcher at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), her researches deal with forced migrations, political violence and family transformations in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Jordan. She is the scientific coordinator of Ifpo’s team for the ITHACA project.

Jalal Al Husseini is an associate research fellow in political sociology at the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) and a freelance consultant for numerous United Nations agencies, including UNRWA. Based in Amman since 1997, he has specialized in forced migration and labour market issues. Holder of a PhD obtained at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva), with a doctoral dissertation on the political dimensions of UNRWA’s mandate, he is the author of numerous published articles and reports, and the editor of several collective books including Palestinians between State and Diaspora: uncertainty times (2011) and Palestine in Networks (2020). He has recently consulted with various international organizations, including UNRWA on the status of ex-Gazans in Jordan; the status of the “Non-ID Palestinians” in Lebanon, and the living conditions of Palestine Refugees from Syria in Jordan and in Lebanon.

Solenn Al Majali is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, at the Telemme laboratory attached to Aix-Marseille University (France). She is also an assistant researcher at CNRS for ITHACA Program (Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region) at the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo) in Jordan. Her dissertation deals with the processes of exclusions and sociabilities among Yemeni and Somali refugee communities in a popular neighborhood of Amman. Her thesis focused on ethnic interactions and on racial issues, particularly among the mixed Yemeni-Somali groups in Amman.

Kamel Doraï is geographer and researcher at the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) currently based at MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers (France). He was based at the Ifpo in Damascus (Syria), Amman (Jordan) and headed the Department of contemporary studies at Ifpo in Beirut (Lebanon). His work focuses mainly on asylum and refugees in the Middle East, with a focus on migration and transnational practices within the Palestinian diaspora. He is currently conducting research on Syrian and Palestinian refugees from Syria in Jordan and Lebanon as well as on the urbanization process of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. He develops comparative studies between refugees residing in and out of camps, as well as analysis of their migratory experience and spatial practices to map the relationships between refugee camps and their urban environment in the Middle East.

Ayham Dalal is an architect and urban planner specialized in the field of forced migration. He has a PhD in Architecture from TU Berlin, and has taught seminars on refugee camps, ethnography and urbanism in Germany, USA and Oman. He has co-directed an award-wining film on the appropriation of camps in Berin, and has co-curated two exhibition on refugees’ architecture. He is the author of the book “From Shelters to Dwellings: The Zaatari Refugee Camp” published by Transcript Verlag in 2022, and the co-editor of the book “Tempohomes: Untersuchung Sozial-Räumlicher Aneignungspraktiken von Geflüchteten in Ausgewählten Berliner Gemeinschaftsunterkünften” published by TU Berlin University Press in 2022. His writings appeared in journals such as Housing Studies, Urban Planning, Town Planning Review, and ARCH+.

Amal Khaleefa is a postdoctoral researcher at the CNRS. She received her PhD in Language and Culture Education from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in 2020. Khaleefa’s research interests include sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and social and cultural practices in forced migration. Her PhD dissertation, which examines language realities of Syrian refugees inside the Zaatari Camp, has received two major awards, and it will be published by Sorbonne University Press in 2023. Khaleefa is currently working on the ITHACA Project in the Department of Contemporary Studies at the French Institute of the Near East (IFPO) in Amman, Jordan.

Eugenia Bournova is a full professor of contemporary History at NKUA. Her research focuses on the social history of contemporary Athens.

Myrto Dimitropoulou is a historian specialising on the urban social history of Athens. She has also been PI of projects organising historical archives of enterprises and designing digital historical archives.

Stavros Spyrellis is researcher at the Greek National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) and associate at the Géographie-cités laboratory in France (CNRS).

PhD in social geography, associate researcher at the French School of Athens, Section of Modern and Contemporary Studies. Her research focuses on socio-spatial dynamics and contemporary mobilities in the Southern European context.

PhD in Sociology in organizational Sociology, Gender and Migration. She is actually working as Project Coordinator for Vaccination against COVID-19, in Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Illegal Migrants for the ministry of Migration and Asylum. Her research focuses on migration, work, health and Illness.

He studied Sociology at the University of Crete and worked as a researcher and archivist. His interests focus on Modern Greek Social History.

Michaël Gasperoni is researcher in early modern History. He is particularly interested in migration and how societies deal with foreigners and minority groups. He works on Jewish ghettos, studied from a demographic, economic, social and legal perspective.

Cyril Grange is director of the Centre Roland Mousnier (Sorbonne Université/CNRS). He is a specialist in historical demography and Jewish family history. He is interested in the demographic behaviours of Jewish populations in the modern era.

Paraskevi Michailidou is an engineer specialized in digital humanities and is actually working at Sorbonne University in Paris on the analysis and valorization of data for the history of populations.

Montserrat Canela Garayoa is the chief of UNHCR Records and Archives Section, in Geneva. She is the chair of the Section of International Organizations of the International Council on Archives.  She has a MA  in history and geography, a MA in archives management, and an engineering degree in IT management

Heather Faulkner is Senior Archivist, leading the Research and Access team of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She has a MA in Archives and Records Management and has extensive experience of information management in the international humanitarian sector