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Arhama Siddiqa


Research Fellow

Areas of Research:

Middle East and North Africa

Ms. Arhama Siddiqa is currently working as a Research Fellow at Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) and is currently pursuing her PhD in International Relations from Quaid-e-Azam University. She graduated from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 2013 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Political Science and Economics and went on to complete an MA in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick in 2014. In 2017 she was awarded the Commonwealth Professional Fellowship, during which she was based at Conciliation Resources in the United Kingdom. She has also written for various publications including The Express Tribune, South Asian Voices, Middle East Monitor, Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera Centre for Studies. She has also published in a number of Higher Education Commission verified journals and in 2024, she was also a paper presenter in the Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge University, UK.

Mail arhama.siddiqa@issi.org.pk

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Issue Brief on “COVID 19 and Repatriation of Pakistani Workers”

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Issue Brief on “Situation in Yemen: Caught Between Conflict and The Corona Virus”

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Issue Brief on “Protests in Iraq: An Assessment”

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Issue Brief on “Indian Atrocities in IOK: Is India Following Israeli Script?”

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Report – Roundtable “Participants of Trilateral (Afghanistan, China, Pakistan) Diplomatic Workshop”

The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) hosted a roundtable on October 31, 2019 with participants of the Trilateral Diplomatic Workshop at the Foreign...

Issue Brief on “Syrian Golan Heights: A Politcal Chimera”

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