 Actually, before I started my academic career in gender studies, I was in an entirely different industry. I was in the hospitality industry, worked actually in a few places, and then you just feel the inequalities, and I wasn't able to name them and to express what I was feeling. And yeah, I started inquiring randomly and eventually it led me to gender studies. I think our course in the Centre for Gender Studies does not make any generalization about gender, so we also look beyond questions of identity and political representation, and really try to look at gender in a more structural way. And our curriculum really goes hand in hand with SOAS overall, the colonial approach, so it's really given voice to scholars, communities, and our students, whose voices are not necessarily in the mainstream. Well, I wouldn't say there's such a thing as a typical student, however, I think there's something very special about students who pursue gender studies. Everyone has a story to tell, everyone has a story to relate. We actually have great conversation in class, you know, like Lincoln, the outside world with what we read. Many of our students pursue academic studies after a while, and yeah, that's really like, since it's a very activism-driven kind of discipline, we usually have, you know, nice networks for support, for peer teaching, for peer support, et cetera, et cetera. And yeah, I would say, yeah, this is what makes our students special. Well, I think I would give them the advice that when I first came to SOAS in 2011, an MA student who was doing the gender studies course gave me, actually she likened the course and the whole academic year to a train, because postgraduate, you know, program in the UK goes really, really fast. So it's really important to be able to get on the train on board, because you do not want to be, you know, running behind it. But hopefully, I mean, between us course conveners, you know, your peers in the class, your peers at SOAS and the different support system that SOAS offers, it should be okay. Everyone gets on the train in gender. I consider myself a feminist Middle Eastern gender studies researcher. I'm really interested in, you know, the whole dynamics of gender within the Middle East. Yes, I focus on women's right, but I also want to look at, you know, the relationships between women and men. So I'm not really into, you know, binarizing, let's say, men and women separately. I'm very interested in areas related to emotions and affect. So for example, my research, current research is how young people in Lebanon negotiate between their love feelings and the social category of sex. So it's really trying to link, to give voice really to two emotions, right, which are often left out as not enough credible scientific knowledge.