At MSM Nora teaches qualitative research methodologies in the Schools critical Research Methods and Skills program, for evidence-based policy making. Nora completed her PhD at the University of Utrecht. One of her co-supervisors was Professor Wim Naudé, Dean of MSM and Professor in Entrepreneurship and Business and Emerging Markets at Maastricht University. Her thesis focused on the governance of refugees in the Middle East, with a particular focus on how refugees cope with informality and institutional ambiguity. Nora did ethnographic research and lived among Palestinian refugee communities in two informal settlements in South Lebanon for over ten months. Read more