Youmna is a PhD candidate in law at the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas. Her dissertation examines the question of the “identity of the individual in the Lebanese private law”. She is a Teacher and researcher at the Faculty of Law at Saint Joseph-University of Beirut.

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Youmna is also an attorney at the Beirut Bar Association. Her publications and research focus on gender, identity, nationality, family, personal status and religious law.