Dr al Zoubi is a development economist at Oxford department for international development and gender and forced migration tutor in Christ church, University of Oxford, UK. whose early research focused on gender and rural development in Syria, particularly the role of women’s empowerment. More recently, her work has focused on the experiences of Syrians who have been displaced by the war. 

Dr al Zoubi worked for five years during the war in Syria in academic and humanitarian roles through INGOs and the United Nations. Her extensive experience in qualitative and quantitative fieldwork and data analysis enabled her to conduct rapid appraisals and fieldwork in active conflict zones and besieged areas in Syria, and in refugee camps in Lebanon.

She is now working on finding new channels with research and humanitarian organisations to facilitate Syrian refugees’ socio-economic integration into their host countries, through their contributions in the UK, Europe, and the Middle East.

She is the recipient of numerous awards Open Society Foundations USA;  Transformative Gender Research fund  by Open Society Foundation, Jordan; the Syrian Scientific Agricultural Research Centre, the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform; L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science; the League of Arab States ‘Arab Woman Organization’.