Professional Affiliation

Visiting Researcher, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, North Carolina State University

Expert Bio

Rita Stephan is a Research Fellow at The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University and was previously the Regional Coordinator of the Middle East Bureau at USAID. She is the co-editor of In Line with the Divine: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Lebanon and the author of several publications on Lebanese women’s movement, social movements, social networks, and Arab-Americans.