Paul Moawad

Trained as an architect, Paul Moawad has worked for over twenty years in Higher Education as a lecturer in the US, UK and Lebanese Universities holding part-time and full-time faculty positions. Additionally, he has been invited to lecture and participate in seminar courses at Columbia University, Corcoran Art and Design School, Imperial College London and UCL. In the past 6 years and in parallel to his PhD studies and practice, Paul has been an active researcher involved in 4 interdisciplinary research grants as a research fellow and a co-project lead looking at the impact of COVID-19 on refugees living in informal tented settlements. More recently, he has been delivering guest lectures and seminars in Urban Planning History and Thought (BSc), Comparative Urban Projects (MSc) and Sustainability, Resilience and Climate Change (MSc) at UCL, Bartlett School of Planning (London). His academic expertise is situated within the field of urban studies and environmental planning, border studies and forced migration, informal settlements and spatial re-appropriations, power mechanisms and waiting modalities, hospitality typologies and social integration, with a focus on the Middle East region. In 2021 Paul won the IJURR Foundation Writing-up Grant Award, and was awarded the position of a research scholar at the Political Science Department at Yale University under the guidance of professor Frances Rosenbluth. Paul completed his PhD in 2022 and is currently in process to publish a monograph and a series of papers decoding ‘waiting’ modalities in marginal territories.