Nour Almazidi

Nour completed her LSE-funded PhD at the Department of Gender Studies in 2025, supervised by Prof Sumi Madhok and Prof John Chalcraft. Her research examines the political struggles of stateless subaltern groups and lays bare the histories of colonial and statist violence shaping modern statelessness. Through ethnographic storytelling and oral and life history interviews, she specifically focuses on the pastoralist and nomadic Bedouins of the Arabian Peninsula who later became Bidun Jinsiyya (without citizenship) in Kuwait, exploring their collective resistive politics, nomadic epistemologies and histories, and alternative imaginaries of citizenship, rights, and justice. Her thesis offers new and original ways of thinking on statelessness and human rights struggles. Nour’s work has been published in several venues, including the European Journal of Women’s Studies and The International Journal of Human Rights.

Nour holds a BA (hons) 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 the LSE Middle East Centre. She is an Editor for the Engenderings blog. Her two other lines of research include contemporary anti-gender politics and death and occult studies.

Key expertise: statelessness, critical alternative human rights, imperialism and coloniality, middle east studies, feminist political theory