May Gadallah
May Gadallah is an Assistant Professor at the Statistics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. She holds a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles where she also served as a post-doc. She participated in several labor market and social science studies in Egypt
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Rania Roushdy is an associate professor of practice in the Department of Economics of the School of Business at The American University in Cairo (effective July 2017). Before joining AUC, Roushdy served as the senior research manager, associate II, of the Poverty Gender and Youth Program of the Population Council, Egypt Office. Roushdy has over
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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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Amal Kandeel is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute. She specializes in the political economy of the Middle East, and particularly in water and food security, agriculture and climate change, and poverty and rural development issues. Her work has been focused on Egypt, as well as on Jordan, Syria, Morocco, and the UAE.
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Bahey eldin Hassan is the Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), an independent regional non-governmental organization founded in 1993 to promote respect for the principles of human rights and democracy in the Arab region. CIHRS produces analysis on the difficulties of applying international human rights law and disseminating human rights culture
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Nadine is a British Palestinian journalist that has been living and working in Egypt since July 2011. She has worked for Bloomberg, the English edition of Al-Masry Al-Youm (also known as Egypt Independent), and as a freelance journalist writes for The National newspaper in the UAE, and the London Review of Books blog. She has
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