Sama Totah

Sama Totah is pursuing an MA in Regional and International Studies, specializing in Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies. She graduated from the University of South Florida with a BA in International Studies. After completing her BA, she returned to Jordan, where she interned at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), briefly worked as a research analyst at NAMASIS, and pursued Kabardian and Russian language courses.

Her academic interests include civil war, transnationalism, diaspora, de facto states, and nation-building. She hopes to contribute to expanding scholarship on diaspora and transnationalism within the post-Soviet North Caucasus and its ties to Western Asia. Aiming to demystify barriers to conflict resolution within the region.