Kamel Doraï
Kamel Doraï is geographer and researcher at the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) currently based at IFPO (Beirut, Lebanon) and research associate at MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers (France). He was based at the Ifpo in Damascus (Syria) from 2006 to 2010. His work focuses mainly on asylum and refugees in the Middle East, with a focus on migration and transnational practices within the Palestinian diaspora. He is currently conducting research on Syrian and Palestinian refugees from Syria in Jordan and Lebanon as well as on the urbanization process of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. He develops comparative studies between refugees residing in and out of camps, as well as analysis of their migratory experience and spatial practices to map the relationships between refugee camps and their urban environment in the Middle East.
