Social Policy Database

Biography

Dr. Nadia Abu-Zahra is an Associate Professor of International Development and Global Studies and a member of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Abu-Zahra co-facilitates the University of Ottawa's Distance-Learning Certificate Program in Community Mobilisation in Crisis, to be offered in Lebanon to students adversely affected by the conflict in Syria. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, Dr. Abu-Zahra was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Abu-Zahra has served as a consultant to the Sete of Cada, and as an expert advisor to the Cadian Immigration and Refugee Board. She serves on the Reconciliation Committee of the Cadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and was an elected Director on the Federation’s Board from 2011 to 2015. She obtained her DPhil from the University of Oxford, and her MA and BA from the University of Toronto.