Nour Shtayyeh is a Palestinian-Jordanian writer and researcher working at the intersection of humanitarian advocacy and creative expression. Having lived between Doha, Beirut, Edinburgh, and Amman, her life and work are shaped by movement, memory, and a deep curiosity about how meaning is made in uncertain times.

Nour works across the NGO education sector and the media publishing industry — writing grants that drive social justice initiatives, while also crafting prose, poetry, and photography that explore displacement, identity, and the ruptures within cultural narratives. With a grounding in anthropology and social theory, she is particularly drawn to the questions of why we do what we do, and how stories — personal, political, and collective — shape our lives.

Her writing has been published in My Kali Magazine, MMAG, and is forthcoming in Awham Magazine. She has contributed to research on migrant and domestic labor rights with Tamkeen for Legal Aid and Human Rights, and currently serves as a fundraiser for Global Nomads.

Nour studied Sociology and Anthropology at the American University of Beirut, and Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is the recipient of the 2017 Sheikh Fawzi Memorial Prize for excellence in the social sciences.