Research grounded. Projects delivered. Consultancy support for community-based interventions, civil society, and rule-of-law programming across the MENA region.
Rigorous research support, hands-on project management, and practical training — combined for donor-funded work in conflict-affected and fragile contexts.
Full project lifecycle management, consortium coordination, logframes, budget monitoring, and donor compliance.
Research design, fieldwork coordination, evidence synthesis, and academic and policy publication support.
Project management and MEL training, logframe workshops, and proposal and grant writing skills development.
MEL framework design, baseline-to-endline study coordination, and Horizon Europe and MFA proposal development.
I run Midan & Projects from Delft, working at the intersection of research and programme delivery in conflict-affected and fragile contexts. Most recently, I managed a €3M+ Dutch MFA-funded research programme in Libya at Leiden University's Van Vollenhoven Institute, coordinating a seven-partner consortium from design through to close-out.
Before that, my work took me through fieldwork and consultancy roles across Sudan, Somaliland, and Egypt, with a research focus on community-based interventions in conflict and post-conflict settings. That combination is what Midan & Projects offers: research fluency and delivery discipline in the same person.
MA, American University in Cairo (summa cum laude)