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Yasmeen Shahzadeh lived in Jordan until she was 17 years old. Photo courtesy \u00a9 Yasmeen Shahzadeh.<\/p><\/div>\n

Yasmeen Shahzadeh<\/a> was born and raised in Jordan. Both maternal grandparents of hers were refugees from Palestine and she grew up learning about their experience and seeing them finding ways to serve their family and the communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was always drawn to being in humanitarian aid an NGO is working with U.N. agencies. That was always something that I wanted to do to follow in their footsteps,\u201d says Shahzadeh.<\/p>\n

In university, she started to do more research about women, development, health, and education, and slowly found out what kind of work she wanted to do. She started to focus more on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and on the intersections between gender, development, and education particularly in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

In 2016, she had the opportunity to work with UNICEF in Jordan. She worked in program reviews with governmental and non-governmental partnerships in the country, combatting gender-based violence.<\/p>\n

Shahzadeh has a Bachelor\u2019s degree from McGill with a major in International Development Studies, and a double minor in Communications Studies and Social Studies of Medicine. At the moment, she is doing her Master\u2019s in Education and Society at McGill, and has a concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies.<\/p>\n

Shahzadeh went to Jordan with LERRN, and was excited to be part of an international partnership with researchers in Jordan and Lebanon.<\/p>\n

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Shahzadeh in Petra, a famous archaeological site in Jordan’s southwestern desert. Photo courtesy \u00a9 Yasmeen Shahzadeh.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI think it’s really important for me as a Jordanian living abroad to be serving my community and to be contributing in research that will better my community and better the people will live in my country. So as a Jordanian Canadian being situated in the LERRN project advocating and as a Jordanian I think is really interesting and I’m really fortunate to be doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shahzadeh tells that there is a very big gap in programming for refugees, and being able to approach it from an academic point of view is going to be really interesting. She is excited to be conducting research with academics and youth of all backgrounds in Jordan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think being able to do that kind of research in partnership with people who have a stronger lived experience and more academic experience than me is going to be a really valuable experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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