Yasmeen Daher

Yasmeen holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Montreal, where she wrote her dissertation, The Art of Living Together: On Political Engagement and the Ethics of Companionship. Yasmeen’s research sits at the intersection of political theory, ethics, and direct political action, all of which are deeply rooted in a commitment to feminist, social, and anti-colonial movements. Beyond academia, she has been actively engaged in political organizing, public writing, and challenging structures of power and imagining radical solidarity for a just world. Yasmeen has taught in various academic institutions and programs, from Birzeit University in Palestine to the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Canada, and has written for wider audiences on questions of exile, revolutionary traditions, political resistance, and imagining worlds where dignity is non-negotiable. She has also co-directed the Febrayer Network, an independent media network focused on the Arabic-speaking region, working at the intersection of journalism and political thought. Research Yasmeen’s current research examines how authoritarianism in the Global South shapes political and moral subjectivities beyond mere repression. Focusing on Egypt and Palestine, she investigates how authoritarian regimes mobilize belonging, nationalism, and economic grievances to sustain their rule. Through activist testimonies, archival materials, and political discourse analysis, her work seeks to understand how authoritarianism reshapes agency—and how alternative ethical and political imaginaries might challenge it. She will conduct this research as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Potsdam.