Kahina earned a BA in Art History from Paris VII before boarding on an Erasmus Mundus masters in Cultural Identity Studies that brought her to St Andrews, Buenos Aires and Lisbon. She has now settled in Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) as a PhD student in Information Science. Her research explores how social inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers can be further promoted, by combining investigations of their information practices and cultural heritage enactments. She is involved in various local community organisations working with refugees. She also presides the University society for postgraduate researchers and recently became trustee of the Student Union.