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Hala earned her MA in Peace, Media Peace and Conflict studies from the UN mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica and Honors B.A. in Communication studies and Peace Studies from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
Hala previously worked as a youth worker for The Boys and Girls Club of Canada at NGen Youth Centre, where she coordinated, facilitated and designed the program curriculum for the youth led anti- violence initiative, Increase the Peace, that focuses on tackling youth street violence using Urban Arts in the city of Hamilton.
Her research focuses on the Agency of the Libyan and Egyptian Diasporas during the Arab Spring uprisings and her supervisor is Dr. Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels.