Mai Hassan is an Assistant Professor (starting September 2016) in the Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on authoritarian and hybrid regimes, the state, land and violence, and ethnic politics with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Her current book project explores how authoritarian leaders vary management of the state sub-nationally to best meet
Learn MoreGhada 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
Learn MoreSamer 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
Learn MoreYasmin 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
Learn MoreAhmed 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
Learn MoreYahia 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
Learn MoreSamer Mosis is a Gulf energy consultant for The Lafayette Group LLC and a master’s candidate at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. http://www.mei.edu/profile/samer-mosis
Learn MoreLouise Sarant is a freelance environment and science journalist based in Cairo. http://www.mei.edu/profile/louise-sarant
Learn MoreHossam Abougabal is a reporter at the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED), covering construction, government and politics in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Bahrain. He has been living and writing in the Middle East since 2011 and has focused on the key issues shaping the region. More recently, he has closely tracked the Egyptian economic revival
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