Maha Abdelhamid is a Tunisian researcher working on minority issues in the MENA region. After obtaining a PhD in social geography in 2018 from Paris X-Nanterre University on “The socio-spatial transformations in Gabes Oasis (Tunisia): decline in agricultural activities, informal urbanization and environmental degradation in Zrig, from 1970 up to the present day”. She published numerous articles and collaborated with several research institutions, such as: ARI (Arab Reform Initiative), EuroMESCO, IRMC (Research institute on the contemporary Maghreb). From 2010 until 2012, she was the coordinator of an Egyptian/Tunisian project on the dynamic and effect of poverty in rural areas for the Social Research Center (American University in Cairo). With the Arab Center for research and Policy studies of Paris (CAREP Paris), she is working on a project on the topic: stories and experiences of black women in the MENA region: dynamics of intersectionality.