Yousra Hamdaoui

PdRF | Focus: Knowledge activism – strengthening African publishing and dissemination · Open Society Foundations + HUMA + LASPAD

Yousra Hamdaoui holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Settat, Morocco. Interested in questions of security, governance, violent extremism, resilience and soft power in the Sahel region and North, she carried out research work in Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Senegal and Morocco. She is in charge of communication and research at Movida/IPAR (Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale), Senegal. She is an associate researcher at the Laboratoire d’analyse des sociétés et Pouvoirs (LASPAD) at the Gaston Berger University of Saint Louis, Senegal and the Center for Global Studies of the International University of Rabat, Morocco. Yousra’s research at HUMA examines the state of scholarly publishing and dissemination in North and arabophone Africa from a critical perspective.