Our Advisory Board
Nana Abuelsoud
Nana Abuelsoud is the Programmatic and Advocacy Lead in realizing sexual and reproductive justice (RESURJ), a transnational global south-led feminist alliance. She is a feminist researcher based in Cairo who is motivated by her interest in knowledge production and feminist movement building. Between 2019 and 2021, Nana worked as a sexual and reproductive rights researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), and was a core member of Ikhtyar Feminist Collective between 2016 and 2020. She is also a sexual and reproductive health coach at the Geneva Foundation for Medical Research and Education. Nana loves reading autobiographies and taking long walks.
Ghada Saad
Ghada Saad is a public health researcher and a doctoral student in epidemiology at the American University of Beirut. Her research interests are around women's empowerment, gender equity, health in conflict, and reproductive, maternal and child health.
She has been on the A Project board since June 2017. She believes it’s been a great opportunity to learn about/contribute to sexual/reproductive health as well as gender equity issues that are occurring in our setting.
Lama Mawla
Lama's background is in philosophy and in arts and cultural management. She has collaborated on different projects that have allowed her to merge her varying interests and passions, ranging from sexual and reproductive health and rights, representation in film and text, digitization and archiving, to artistic and meaning production. She is currently a grants manager at AFAC and has been close to the a project since its conception.
Dr. Nof Nasser-Eddin
Dr. Nof Nasser-Eddin is a feminist sociologist with a PhD (2011) from the University of Warwick. Nof has over fifteen years of experience, which extends beyond the academia, as she has also worked with different international, national and local non-governmental organisations, across Arabic-speaking countries and the global south. Nof’s work and publications focus on issues related to social justice, including environmental feminism, intersectional feminism, sexuality, class, refugeehood, displacement, forced migration, decolonial and queer methods, masculinities, sexual practices and gender performances, and agency. In addition to that Nof has been researching and working on safeguarding policy and procedures in organisations. Nof’s work also investigates the intersections of cultural, economic and political class with gender.
Farah Salka
Farah Salka is a Beirut-based Lebanese-Syrian feminist organiser. She graduated from the American University of Beirut in 2006 with an undergrad in Public Administration and Political Science. She received her masters in Human Rights Law from the University of Malta in 2007. She is the founder-director of the Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) and the Migrant Community Center(s). She works on organizing with migrant communities, asylum seekers and particularly migrant women and migrant domestic workers around issues of racism, xenophobia, migrant justice and labor justice. The MCC which ARM runs provides space, support and resources to sustain MDW-community networks and support migrant workers, activists and initiatives; mobilizing collaboration and solidarity against rampant racist abuse and exploitation in Lebanon. Farah is an advisor to MamaCash and the Equality Fund and a jury member with Ars Electronica. She lives in (and survives) Beirut with the company of her 4 cats.
Rana Hassan
Rana Hassan is a community facilitator and an urban researcher. With an academic background in Urban Studies, her research and practice in that area focuses on urban social movements, feminist urbanisms, informal settlements and participatory planning. More recently, she’s been focusing on group facilitation; she joined forces with other trainers and facilitators, co-founding a cooperative that is dedicated to community facilitation from a feminist perspective with a focus on supporting cooperatives and horizontal groups, as well as movement building.