Dr. Zakia Aqra obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations at the University of the Peloponnese. Her thesis focused on foreign policy and non-state actors, and was funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). She is a Senior Editor and Research Associate at the Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS) since April 2010. She has obtained a MSc in Middle East Politics at SOAS, London, (2014) and a second MSc in International Political Economy at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens (2015), she was awarded a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation (2014-2015). She completed her BSc in International and European Studies at Panteion University, Athens, for which she was granted a full-scholarship from the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005-2011). She is fluent in English, Greek, Arabic, and Italian. As an expert in middle eastern cultural, religious, social and political affairs, Zakia Aqra has worked with refugees in Greece as an intra-cultural mediator and interpreter with foreign journalists and news outlets from across Europe, and with NGOs, including the Ecumenical Refugee Programme of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece, an implemented partner of UNHCR. She was a research expert at the Centre for Religious Pluralism in the Middle East (CRPME), a Greek MFA initiative (2016-2018).
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Article contribution
- The evolution of the notion of Sectarianism
- Interview with the Ambassador of Palestine in Athens, Marwan Emile Toubassi
- Dissecting Sectarianism: the political economy of "Christians"
- Arab immigration to the Gulf
- Jordan on board
- Sunni Camp, Syria, Iran and the Stakeholders
- Interview with Dr. Nabeel Shaath
- Rapping out the message of the Arab Spring
- Palestinian Security Apparatus
- The Samaritans in Palestine: Stuck in the Middle East