Miriam Younes is the director of the regional office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Beirut. She has previously worked as research assistant at the German-Orient Institute Beirut, as a research associate at the Middle Eastern Studies Department at the University of Basel/Switzerland, and as a research coordinator at Lebanon Support. 
Currently, she is finishing her PhD thesis entitled “Living leftism in Lebanon. A historical anthropology of leftist intellectuals in Lebanon, 1930-1990” at the University of Roskilde, Denmark under the supervision of Sune Haugbolle/Samer Frangie. Her research interests are modern intellectual and transnational history, theories of ideologies and collective action as well as concepts of revolution, leftism and post-colonial resistances. Miriam is a research fellow at Lebanon Support and joined the board in 2018.