Dr. Dina Taha

Dina Taha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Doha, Qatar, and an affiliated scholar with the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada, where she received her PhD in Sociology in 2022. Her research focuses on the sociology of migration, family, marriage, and gender. Her theoretical and pedagogical approaches are informed by community-based and decolonial practices.

Prior to joining the Doha Institute, Dina was a senior researcher at the Centre for Community-Based Research located on the University of Waterloo campus, where she provided invaluable insights for numerous regional and national projects spanning topics from food security to digital equity among racialized minorities, refugees, and newcomers.

Taha is the lead Principal Investigator on a three-year Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)-funded project titled Fertility, Faith, and Family: Tracing Fertility Preservation Trends, Experiences, and Challenges in Qatar. She also leads a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant in collaboration with Nisa Homes, pioneering a culturally and religiously tailored shelter system for minority women in Canada. Her scholarship has been featured in leading academic journals, including the British Journal of Sociology and Ethnic and Migration Studies. Dina is a member of the Association of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies (AMEWS), the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS), and the International Sociological Association (ISA).