Dr. Ruba Al Akash

Ruba Al Akash is assistant professor of anthropology at Yarmouk University- Archeology and Anthropology Department. Former Visiting research Fellow in the Refugee Studies Centre -Oxford University-UK. She has been working a faculty member in the Department ofArchitecture and Design, and the department ofhumanities at Jordan University of Science and Technology. Ruba completed her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Kent University-Canterbury; she also holds BA in Journalism and Mass Communication, MA in Social Anthropology from Yarmouk University-Jordan.As a social anthropologist with an interest in the Middle East, urban studies, forced migration as well as religion and politics, her research is highly interdisciplinary particularly at the intersection between social, political and urban anthropology.Ruba’sdoctoral thesis (University of Kent) explores the forms in which migrants and minority groups constitute selves and persons, relationships, and realities in their daily interactions with more emphases on local and regional factors. More recently, she has been investigating the impact of forced migration on Syrian refugees inside and outside camps in Jordan. Current research focuses on the Syrian refugees’experiences in Jordan.