Nour began her LSE-funded PhD at the Department of Gender Studies in 2019. Her archival, ethnographic, and oral history research focuses on stateless subaltern politics, subjectivities, and epistemologies in the Arabian Peninsula. With the stateless Bidoon narrators, activists, protestors, and political prisoners as her thesis’ chief protagonists, Nour gives a theoretical accounting of their epistemic and political presence, collective politics of refusal, nomadic histories, and alternative imaginaries of citizenship. Her other lines of research include queer intimacies, death and grief studies, and contemporary anti-gender politics. She is an Editor for the Engenderings collective. 

Nour holds a BA in International Relations and Political Science from the University of Birmingham, and an MSc in Gender from the LSE. Prior to joining the department, Nour worked as a Researcher at LSE Middle East Centre focusing on women’s political participation in Kuwait. She is a member of the editorial collective for the Engenderings blog. 

Supervisory team: Prof Sumi Madhok and Prof John Chalcraft.