Bio

Sara Nowar is an architect, graduated from the German Jordanian University in Amman in 2014. After graduation, she has worked for two years in the field of architecture in Jordan. In 2017, Sara has completed her professional diploma in “Social Work: Refugees and Migration” at the German Jordanian University, this decision was aligned with her interest in combining architecture and urban studies with humanitarian, social and migration studies. Sara is currently in her last semester of her master studies in urban development at Technical University Berlin. She is writing her master thesis on the Syrian displacement crisis and the Jordanian response, the thesis is under the topic of “Life in Limbo: How refugees negotiate their needs in the Jordanian refugee camps of Zaatari and Azraq, and the city of Amman”, the thesis provides a comparative analysis of the everyday needs and reality of the Syrian refugees within the precarious time and spatial structures of life in camps and the city. In the future, Sara aims and plans to be involved in research projects in the fields of migration and humanitarian urban issues, or working on community development projects.