May Tamimová is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. Her work focuses on spatial approaches to urban security and the effects of securitisation on Europe’s religious communities. She holds a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where she researched the effects of everyday clientelism and violence on political subjectivity and well-being. May is especially interested in intimacy and neighborship in politics and their intersections with broader governance structures and contexts of political marginalisation.

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May Tamimová is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. Her work focuses on spatial approaches to urban security and the effects of securitisation on Europe’s religious communities.  She holds a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where she researched the effects of everyday clientelism and violence on political subjectivity and well-being. May is especially interested in intimacy and neighborship in politics and their intersections with broader governance structures and contexts of political marginalisation. Previously, May worked at the European University Institute in Florence, where she headed the policy research track of a peace dialogue initiative in Libya, and the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies in Beirut, where she led a project on the prevention of violent extremism in Lebanon, among others.