Nora Stel is an Assistant Professor in Governance and Human Rights at Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands. She is currently finalizing her PhD research at Utrecht University’s Centre for Conflict Studies and is an Affiliated Scholar at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut. Nora works on the political anthropology of governance, authority and legitimacy in conflict-affected contexts, with a particular focus on refugee communities in the Levant. Her research has been published by Oxford University Press and in journals such as Antipode, the Journal of Refugee Studies, Development and Change and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.