Dr Sophie Richter-Devroe

Sophie Richter-Devroe is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, European Centre for Palestine Studies. Sophie’s broad research interests are in the field of everyday politics and women’s activism in the Middle East. She is the author of Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance and Survival (University of Illinois Press, 2018), which won the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. She also has researched and written on the oral histories, memories, and narratives of women from the often-forgotten Palestinian Naqab Bedouin population, and has conducted joint research with Prof. Ruba Salih (University of Bologna) on Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and the West Bank. More recently, she has led a research project on Syrian refugees in Italy and Greece. The project investigates the impact of Syrian forced migration on family and kinning practices in a transnational context. Sophie’s research is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Greece.