Duaa Sameer is a Research Associate at the Karachi Urban Lab, Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi, Pakistan. She graduated with a bachelors in Social Development and Policy from Habib University, Karachi in 2021 with a focus on mixed methods, phenomenological research.

Duaa’s subject interests lie at the confluence of urban violence(s), political economy, and social justice movements spanning critical issues of urban housing and mobility, climate vulnerability, intimate-partner violence, harassment laws, and emergent political movements. She has previously worked with renowned architect and urban planner Arif Hasan, studying the street economy and public land of District South in Karachi. She has also worked with Interactive Research and Development (IRD) on the gendered impact of Covid-19 in Pakistan. Her capstone research explored the socio-cultural experience of and legal impediments to online disclosures of harassment in Pakistan.