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Rouba Mhaissen

Mhaissen

Dr. Rouba Mhaissen is an economist and development practitioner with a focus on forced migration and the Syrian refugee crisis. She is the founder and director of Sawa Foundation (UK), and Sawa for Development and Aid (Lebanon).

Comment: Syrian civil society organisations remain underfunded and throttled by ineffective governmental and international bodies with tedious bureaucracies. Yet hope exists within the many Syrians working tirelessly for their country.

07 March, 2016