Professionally I am interested in working with themes that involve Euro-Mediterranean dimension. My main fields of expertise comprise Islam in the Balkans, Islam and women, the Balkans as a cultural area, religion and gender and victimology of Balkan Muslim populations. I plan projects, lecture, teach and publish.

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- Training course .
- Researchers’ training.
- To promote the research on " the language and the society " , this concept includes all fields where language can be considered as an instrument of political , cultural and social authority ( medias language , sociolinguistics , bilinguism , linguistic policy , linguistic questions, adaptation of the immigrants , linguistic of contact , linguistic of corpus etc..)

Scholars connected with IJA have personal research projects or act as members of larger bodies and networks. The most important is the international scholars' network on the Reception History of the Bible, which publishes the series "Studies in the Reception History of the Bible (SRB)". IJA organises also public lectures in the fields of Judaic studies and interreligious encounters and confrontation between the three monotheistic faiths.

Projects: Galilee in the Iron Age: Archaeology, Texts and History
Society and Religion in the Ancient Near East / Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions

The weekend includes seminars, concerts, theatre, art exhibitions, and a peace mass in the Loviisa Cathedral.

MONIKA – Multicultural Women’s Association, Finland is a nationwide, multicultural organization functioning on social field. It promotes the equality and inclusion of women with an immigrant background in Finland and prevents violence against women. The Association acts as an expert and does advocacy to improve the status of women, as well as supports immigrant women’s activities through its member organisations. 

Crisis Center Monika (Kriisikeskus Monika) provides help for women with an immigrant background who have experienced violence or a threat of it. Crisis Center provides low-threshold services, including crisis help, psycho-social support, peer support groups, counselling and service advising, and supportive housing services after a period in a shelter. 

Shelter Mona (Turvakoti Mona) provides safe housing and crisis assistance for women and their children who have experienced intimate partner violence.

Shelter Mona is located in a secret address and meant for short-term housing. The women can come to the shelter from anywhere in Finland.

Integration Center Monika (Kotoutumiskeskus Monika) provides individual guidance, group activities, and mentoring for all women with an immigrant background who need support in their integration process and in finding a job. 

To arrange yearly a Women´s craft fair in December, to arrange/participate at a seminar in Morocco with local women´s organizations, to publish books for women who have suffered from violence etc...

Peace and security research, innovation and training.

Three complementary Initiatives LACR is currently working on institutionalizing 3 fundamental projects in Lebanon and for the region with hundreds of activities inside each: “AUNV” “BILAD” “CHAML” “AUNV” The Arab University for Non-Violence (AUNV), which is the first of its kind in the region, is a universal college of a one year academic professional program that secures professionals and specialists in non-violence and human rights culture and non-religious discrimination. The university will be a professional institution linked to the social causes with the objective of achieving change on the social and political level. It will work on the empowerment of the societies through empowerment of the individuals who will work in schools, universities, associations, political campaigns, etc. At the same time, the university will be linked to the work market. The university will secure an intensive program of educational credits with a diploma of Masters Degree. It will graduate about 100 students yearly from Lebanon and the Arab countries, with university diploma accredited locally and internationally. “BILAD” Creation of 100 “Pedagogic Houses”: First of its kind in Lebanon and in the Region, it aims at the institutionalization of the education on non-violence, non-sectarianism and democracy through establishing a kind of “informal schools” in 100 villages and cities overall Lebanon. BILAD is a summary of the Arabic phrase "بيوت اللاعنف اللاطائفية الديمقراطية" that means “Non-violent Non-sectarian Democratic Houses.” The word also means “country” "بلاد" and that is why we choose it to indicate building the country from the bottom up. We have already established 8 initiatives for “houses” in 8 different regions: 3 in the South, 2 in the North, 2 in Mount-Lebanon and 1 in the Bekaa. Three of them, which are the most successful and effective, will be turned into “model” – permanent institutions. “CHAML” Foundation of a National YOUTH Gathering based on non-violent, non-sectarian and justice values under the name of CHAML, hundreds & thousands of youth, men and women from different regions. CHAML is the English spelling for the Arabic term “شَمْل” meaning “gathering” in the Arabic culture and familial tradition. Its Arabic initials were also developed to mean “"شباب مواطنون لبنانيون لاطائفيون لاعنفيون which means “Non-violent Non-sectarian Young Lebanese Citizens”. CHAML was registered in 2007 as an independent association, its first members are young Lebanese citizens, men and women, who have been deeply trained during 2 years with LACR on non-sectarianism and non-violence and on the democratic participation in society, and who are aware of their rights, want to defend them, and have viable alternatives to apply. Arab CHAML The Lebanese CHAML will be the base of Arab and Regional CHAML that was launched in 2008 through LACR support to tens of individuals and civil organizations trained deeply with us on Non-violence since 2004.