Abdalhadi Alijla is post-doctoral fellow at the Orient Institute in Beirut (OIB), Lebanon and Co-Leader of Global Migration and Human Rights at the Global Young Academy, Germany. He also has the position of Associate Researcher and the Regional Manager of the Varieties of Democracy Institute at Gothenburg University for Gulf countries, and Associate Fellow at the Post-Conflict Research Center in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has been granted several awards and scholarships, including DAAD (2009), RLC Junior Scientist (2010), UNIMI (2012), ICCROM (2010), Saud AL-Babtin(2002) among others.