We’re a nimble team of designers and developers from all around the world. We have many years of experience in the field, love our craft and never take ourselves too seriously.
Soraya El Kahlaoui
Principal investigator of the Traab project
Soraya El Kahlaoui holds a PhD in sociology from EHESS. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University’s Conflict and Development Research Center. Throughout her research, she analyzes mechanisms of dispossession and the development of property rights in the MENA region. The goal of her project is to provide a re-reading of post-2011 North African social and political transformations (Morocco and Tunisia). She is also the author of the documentary Landless Moroccans and numerous articles such as “Claiming their right to possess”; The Guich Oudaya tribe’s resistance to land grabbing” published by JNAS.
Meriem Bentarjem
Data Manager & Creator
of the Application Digitraab
Meriem Bentarjem develops technical and statistical tools to solve social science problems as a statistician specializing in risk calculation in insurance, data, and public policy. As the lead statistician on a study “Justice and Judges’ Movements”, she produced a statistical analysis that described the dynamics of judges’ movements in Tunisia over a 20-year period. Currently, she is part of a regional program developed by Birzeit University and the Amerian University of Cairo (AUC) on “Governing Responsible AI and Data in the MENA Region.” In addition, she is part of the AUC Data Governance System program. In 2015, she co-founded Barr Al Aman research media to inform and debate public policy issues, decision-making processes, and society’s impacts.
Amina Amharech
Moroccan Investigator
Poet, painter, and founding member of AZUL, a community network for Amazighs. She aims to address both national and international issues related to land, territory, and natural resources of Amazighs and indigenous peoples.
Amine Moussaid
Community Manager/Press relations
Moroccan journalist specializing in digital media and active in Moroccan human rights organizations.
Ahmed Hamadto
Branding, Design Director
Working in the advertising and design industry since 2010, full experience with advertising, visual communication and design. Ambitious and passionate about everything creative, especially typography, digital solutions and branding for both new and existing brands.
Ziko Kono
Video Making
Video producer Zakaria N’Kia, alias ZiKO KONO, uses his talents to create awareness-raising videos on public issues.
Pr Koenraad Bogaert
Ghent University
Koenraad Bogaert is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies and a member of the Middle East and North Africa Research Group (MENARG) at Ghent University. He is the author of the book Globalized Authoritarianism. Megaprojects, Slums and Class Relations in Urban Morocco, published by the University of Minnesota Press
Pr Karen Rignall
Kentucky University
Karen Rignall is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor at the University of Kentucky whose work spans activist, academic, and community spaces. She is the author of the book An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality, published by Cornell University Press.
