Dr. Tamirace Fakhoury is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Refugee & Migration Studies at the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. She is also the Scientific advisor to the Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po in Paris where she developed a project on how Arab states navigate the international refugee regime.

Prior to joining Aalborg University, Tamirace was an Associate Professor at the Lebanese American University (LAU) and the director of the Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution (ISJCR). From 2012 until 2016, she was a visiting Assistant Professor in the summer sessions at the University of California in Berkeley.

Tamirace is currently in the leadership team of the GCRF-funded Rights for Time network which looks into how time conditions war and displacement. Together with Allison McCulloch, she is investigating through a SSHRC Insight Development Grant how power-sharing governments implement policy in the realm of asylum and refugee governance.  In 2020, she was the principal investigator of a Carnegie grant on “Resilience and Inclusive Governance in the post-2011 Arab Landscape” at LAU.

Tamirace earned several fellowships such as the Jean Monnet fellowship in comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence and the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg.

Her core research and publication areas are migration and refugee governance in conflict areas; international responses to forced migration; norm contestation in the international system; the European Union’s external migration policy; and power-sharing and ethno-sectarian conflicts. She tweets at @tamyfakhoury