Research Interests
The Zionist Movement and Israel’s efforts and success in the period 1947-1949 to obtain international support for the establishment of a state and the gaining of UN membership.
Background
Working experience:
February 2011 - : Researcher at PRIO.
2010: Board member of the Nordic Society for Middle East Studies
January 2010 - : Editor, Babylon, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier
January - May 2010: Booknote Editor, Journal of Peace Research.
2009 - 2010: Guest lecturer at the University of Oslo: "Neighbourhood Bully? The Great Powers and the Middle East Since 1945"
December 2008 - : Research Assistant for Professor Hilde Henriksen Waage
August 2008 - February 2010: Managing editor, Journal of Peace Research
May 2008 - January 2010: Managing Editor, Babylon, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier
January-July 2007: Trainee at the Norwegian Embassy in Amman, Jordan.
2004 - 2007: Board member of Spire, The Development Fund Youth, a Norwegian NGO.
2003 - 2006: Assistant Editor at Solum Forlag, Solum Publishing House.
Education:
2006-2008: MA in History at the University of Oslo (UiO)
2002-2005: BA in History at the University of Oslo (UiO)
1999-2002: International Baccalaureate (IB), St. Stephen's School of Rome. Received the Bilingual Diploma.
Languages spoken:
Bilingual Norwegian and English.
Can speak Italian.
Basic Arabic