Former Junior Professor

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Academic Background

2012-2013

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore.

2010-2011

Academic Visitor (Besse Scholarship), St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

2008-2010

Doctoral researcer at the CEDEJ, Cairo, Egypt.

2007-2012

PhD in Sociology at the School of Advanced Social Science Studies (EHESS) in Paris.

Dissertation Title: „Protests without organizations? Mobilization strategies, casualization and spaces of visibility in textile workers’ strikes in Egypt 2004-2010”.

M.A. in History (Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris-1) and M.Sc. in Comparative Politics (London School of Economics).

Research Interests

Social movements and labour protests in the Middle East

Political Economy of the Middle East

Politics of everyday life

Publications

• “Where are the Men? Here are the Men and the Women! Surveillance, Gender and Strikes in Egyptian Textile Factories”, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 9:2, Summer 2013, Winner of the 2012 JMEWS Graduate Paper Prize.
• “Challenging the Trade Union, Reclaiming the Nation, the Politics of Labor Protest in Egypt” in M.Kamrava (ed.), Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East, New York, Columbia University Press/Hurst, 2013.
• “A Workers’ Social Movement on the Margin of the Global Neoliberal Order, Egypt 2004-2012”(with Joel Beinin) in J. Beinin and F. Vairel (eds.), Social Movements, Mobilization andContestation in the Middle East and North Africa, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2nd edition,2013.
• “La contestation sociale en Egypte depuis 2004: entre précarité et mobilisation locale” [Social Protests in Egyptsince 2004: Casualization and Local Mobilizations], Revue Tiers-Monde, April 2011.
• “Egyptian Leftist Intellectuals’ Activism from the Margins: Overcoming theMobilization/Demobilization Dichotomy” in J. Beinin and F. Vairel (eds.), Social Movements,Mobilization and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa, Stanford, Stanford UniversityPress, 2011.

Teaching

Comparative Politics of Developing Countries (Winter Term 2016/17)

Middle East Politics and Societies (Winter Term 2016/17)

Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements (Summer Term 2016)

Middle East Politics and Societies (Winter Term 2015/16)

Development Politics and International Cooperation (Winter Term 2015/16)

Comparative Approaches to Social Movements (Summer Term 2015)

Development Politics and International Cooperation (Winter Term 2014/15)

Middle East Politics and Societies (Winter Term 2014/15)

Theories of State Formation and Political Regimes (Summer Term 2014)

Comparative Politics of the Middle East (Summer Term 2014)

Middle East Politics and Societies (Winter Term 2013/14)

Comparative Politics: The Middle East and North Africa (Winter Term 2013/14)

Social Movements: Concepts and Cases (Summer Term 2013)