Joyce Van De Bildt – De Jong
Joyce van de Bildt-de Jong is a Ph.D. candidate at TAU’s Zvi Yavets School of Historical Studies, writing her dissertation about the contested memory of the 1952 revolution in Egypt during the periods of rule of Anwar al-Sadat and Hosni Mubarak. Joyce has co-established the Dayan Center’s new Audio-Visual Library as part of the Glazer
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Ricard Gonzalez is a journalist and analyst specializing in the Arab World and Catalan politics. He is the author of the book Ascenso y caida de los Hermanos Musulmanes. https://foreignpolicy.com/author/ricard-gonzalez/
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Jean-François Seznec’s focus is on the growth of the energy-based industries, such as petrochemicals, aluminum, or steel, in the Gulf. He is an adjunct professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown, as well as at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies. He has 25 years of experience in international banking and finance,
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Hoda Selim has been an economist at the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo since 2011. Previously, she worked for five years at the World Bank’s Cairo Office in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Monitoring Department. She previously held a research-related position at the Global Development Network. She has a BA in economics from Cairo
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Susanna Myllylä (D.Sc.Admin., D.Sc.Econ.) is a Researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has carried out fieldwork on environmental governance and NGOs in Cairo and Delhi. Currently she is conducting a research project on youth livelihoods and spaces in the slum-type kebele settlements of Addis Ababa...
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Jan Claudius Völkel is Marie Sk?odowska Curie Fellow for a research project on “The role of national parliaments in the Arab transformation processes”. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and had teaching/research appointments at the Universities of Freiburg, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Duhok (Iraqi Kurdistan), Al-Quds (Abu Dis), the Royal Scientific Society Amman and the European
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Bård Helge Kårtveit is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. He earned his doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen (2010), where his research focused on Christian-Muslim relations in Palestine. He was a Senior Lecturer in Middle East Studies at the University
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EU-MENA relations (MENA=Middle East and North Africa), Levant: Israeli-Palestinian & Israeli-Arab conflicts, Lebanon, arab transformation: transitions in Tunisia and Egypt, conflicts in Libya and Syria, transnational and national islamist movements: Hamas, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood. Conflict management, peace building, Security Sector Reform (SSR), scenarios...
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