Led the study “Embracing the Public Spaces of Tariq Al-Jdideh, Beirut” on the social construction of public space in Beirut. Managed the data collection team, conducted analysis, communicated findings, and authored the final report.

Collaborated on a study on urban violence in Beirut using a spatial approach.

Collected secondary data on local governance in eleven Middle Eastern countries and authored country reports.

Conducted a diagnostic study on urban and interurban mobility in Lebanon, including secondary data research, infographic/map production, and report writing.

Data analysis and visualization for UN-Habitat’s Urban Prosperity Index report; authored city profile reports.

Designed projects, supervised construction, managed client relations, and handled budgeting for various architectural projects.

Contributed to project design, provided architectural oversight, and site supervision for construction projects.

• Wehbe, Rouba. (2023, May 15). More Than a Squat. Les Carnets de l’Ifpo. Retrieved May 10, 2024. DOI.  Link >

• Wehbe, Rouba. (2021). “Être propriétaire et palestinien au Liban : entre un conflit politique qui perdure et les enjeux d’un marché immobilier excluant.” CAREP, Paris. Link >

• Wehbe, Rouba. (2019). Politicization of Land and the Production of Affordable Housing, Khandaq el Ghamiq, Beirut. Legal Agenda (60). (Arabic).  Link >

• Wehbe, Rouba. (2019). A Bottom-up Perspective of Urban Violence in Beirut. LCPS. (English).  Link >

• Wehbe, Rouba. (2018). From the Common to the Public, from the Public to the Common: The Socio-Spatial Production of Public Spaces in Tariq El-Jdideh Beirut. Nahnoo, Lebanon (English).

• May 2022
  Presented preliminary doctoral research findings at the AFD annual meeting.
  Les sous-marchés fonciers et immobiliers au Liban ; la théorie du différentiel de la rente foncière au vu de l'inertie et de l'insécurité foncière.

• December 2021|
  Speaker at CAREP conference “Cities in the Arab World.
  Être propriétaire et Palestinien au Liban ; entre un conflit politique qui perdure et les enjeux d'un marché immobilier excluant”

• November 2021
  Presented findings at the IFPO WADI doctoral seminar.
  Les sous-marchés du logement à Beyrouth ; l'informalisation segmentée du marché formel dans un contexte d'inertie et d'insécurité foncière

• February 2020
  Participated in HEPIA conference “Social and Historical Understanding of Public Space in Beirut.”
  Compréhension sociale et historique de l'espace public à Beyrouth 

• August 2018
  LCPS closed roundtable on urban violence in Beirut.
  Spatial approach to urban violence in Beirut 

• November 2016
  Presented at AESOP conference, Notre-Dame University, Beirut.
  Urban stigmatisation and space of contestation; the case of Khandaq al-Ghamiq, Beirut

• May 2016
  Participated in IRD-Lebanese University workshop on Lebanon’s waste crisis.
  Ce n’est pas pour tout le monde ; stigmatisation, et le “public” de l’espace public

• 2017
  Inter-university workshop on sustainable urbanism in Lebanon
  Joint workshop between EPFL, University of Lausanne, University of Geneva, USEK, USJ, University of Damascus.

• 2014
  Supervision of a morphological study workshop on Beirut
  Urban Planning Department, ALBA, under the direction of Mr. Bachir Moujaess.

• 2009-2016
  Teaching architectural design and technical details courses
  Interior Design Faculty, Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA).

• 2012-2015
  Teaching architectural design and technical details courses
  Interior Design Faculty, Lebanese American University (LAU)

• April 2021.
  Seminar « Inventaire de l’espace urbain au Liban : données situationnelles, structurelles et sources alternatives ». 

• April 2021.
  Seminar « Les crises du Liban : les biens publics en tant qu’offrande sacrificielle ».

• July 2020.
  Seminar « L’électricité au Liban : les alternatives face à la corruption et à la faillite institutionnelle ». 

• September 2020
  Seminar « Défier le récit de la réforme de l’eau au Liban postconflit : une étude de cas des cycles hydrosociaux dans la rue Jeanne d’Arc ». 

• August, September 2018
  3 Round tables for IFPO & Nahnoo  « Le littoral libanais : menaces, défis et opportunités ».