Ghada Barsoum
Ghada Barsoum is associate professor and tenured at the Department of Public Policy and Administration at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Her research focuses on issues of youth, gender, employment and poverty. She was recently the principal investigator of a study on informality in Egypt
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Ibrahim el-Houdaiby is a senior researcher at House of Wisdom Foundation for Strategic Studies and a lecturer at AMIDEAST. He holds a B.A. in political science (2005) and an M.A. in political science and development studies (2012) from the American University in Cairo. He also earned a diploma in Islamic studies from the High Institute
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Victor J. Willi holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford and a Master in History, Arabic & Islamic Studies, and International Law from the University of Zurich. He has over 15 years of professional and academic experience in different countries of the Middle East and North Africa, including extended field trips in
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Yasmin El-Rifae
Yasmin El-Rifae works for the Palestine Festival of Literature and is a freelance writer. She lives in Cairo and blogs at cairoagain.wordpress.com. http://www.mei.edu/profile/yasmin-el-rifae
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Samer Atallah is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the American University in Cairo. His research interests are trade and international economics, development economics, and natural resource and environmental economics. He holds a Ph.D. from McGill University. http://www.mei.edu/profile/samer-atallah
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Jayson Casper is a writer and researcher with Arab West Report based in Cairo. He serves as local correspondent for Christianity Today and blogs regularly on Egyptian politics, religion, and culture at A Sense of Belonging. Jayson has worked previously in Mauritania, Jordan, and Tunisia, and holds an M.A. in Islamic studies from Columbia International
Learn MoreAhmed Farouk Ghoneim
Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim is a professor of economics in the faculty of economics and political science at Cairo University. He is a research fellow at the Economic Research Forum for Arab Countries (ERF) in Egypt, where his research focuses on Iran and Turkey, and is also a research fellow at the Center for Social and
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Yahia Shawkat is co-founder and research coordinator of 10 Tooba | Applied Research on the Built Environment, where he focuses on mapping and policy research. Shawkat’s work includes the infographic book, Social Justice and the Built Environment | A Map of Egypt (in Arabic), and the Right to Housing Initiative documentaries. He has also analyzed
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