Tamirace Fakhoury

Tamirace Fakhoury is associate professor of international politics and conflict at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She directs the Conflict Resolution field of study. Prior to joining Fletcher, Fakhoury held appointments at the Lebanese American University, Sciences Po in Paris where she held the visiting Kuwait Chair and Aalborg University. Her research explores the politics of power-sharing as a central framework for conflict resolution after war with a particular focus on the tensions and trade-offs inherent in peace governance and democratization. Her work also engages with the politics of refuge and migration in complex conflict environments. She also studies the role of multilateral actors such as the European Union and the United Nations in shaping global responses to conflict, cooperation, and responsibility-sharing in protracted crises. She is interested in teaching, research, and policy approaches that account for the political agency of states and societies often perceived to be on the margins of power in the international system.

Fakhoury was a co-investigator in the Global Challenges Research Fund Project on Rights for Time, where she led the research strand on how policy time shapes conflict, displacement, and humanitarianism. She is affiliated with the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies as a senior fellow and with the Global Center for Cooperation Research in Duisburg–Essen as an associate senior fellow. She is an associate editor of The Journal of Deliberative Democracy and a co-editor for Development Policy Review, where she leads the section on conflict, security, and gender. She serves on the editorial boards of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Comparative Migration Studies, Refugee Survey Quarterly, and the Middle East Journal. Since 2022, Fakhoury has been a member of the international advisory committee for the special program on Forced Migration at the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Germany.

Fakhoury is the recipient of several research awards and fellowships, including the postdoctoral Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence and the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. In 2023, she received the Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship to write a book on political systems, conflict, and time.

Fakhoury is the author of "Power-Sharing and Democracy in Stormy Weather" (Springer, 2009) and the co-author of "Resisting Sectarianism: Queer Activism in Post-war Lebanon" (Zed Books). She is also the co-editor of the anthology, "Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics" (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Academic in collaboration with Sciences Po). Her latest publication in Global Studies Quarterly (2026) looks at how grassroots organizations localize global governance amid fog and friction.