Samir Sweida-Metwally
Postdoctoral Associate
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BSc (Honours) Brunel University; MSc London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); MSc University of Oxford; PhD University of Bristol
Research Areas: Labor Market; Inequality; Organizational Behavior; Job Quality; Islamophobia
Samir Sweida-Metwally is a Postdoctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi. He holds a PhD in Advanced Quantitative Methods from the University of Bristol (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council—ESRC); an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford (funded by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies); an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); and a BSc (Hons.) in Economics from Brunel University. He is trilingual in English, Arabic, and French.
Sweida-Metwally’s research unfolds in two interlinked strands: one delineating macro-level disparities in labor-market access and job quality and unpacking the meso-level organizational processes that sustain them, and another developing theoretical frameworks of Islamophobia—and experimentally testing how those biases operate within workplace settings. His research has been ranked in the top 2 percent of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. Sweida-Metwally has been interviewed on TV about his research, which has also garnered attention from national and international media outlets, including The Guardian in the UK and The National in the UAE.
Prior to joining academia, Sweida-Metwally worked in the private sector in the UK and the UAE. Overall, Sweida-Metwally spent over 14 years in strategic advisory and research across the UK and UAE private sectors—advising C-suite executives of Dubai-based multinationals—and now consults on workplace Islamophobia for global firms.