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DIRECTOR
Pascal Menoret is a Professor of Modern Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, where he teaches in the Department of Anthropology. His research interests include infrastructure, urban planning, ecology, and energy. He has conducted field research in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. He is the author of Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt (Cambridge University Press 2014) and of Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia (Stanford University Press 2020).
Researcher
Mélanie Henry holds a Ph.D. in history from Aix-Marseille University and is the author of several publications. Her research focuses on subaltern ways of living historical events in North Africa and on the history of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis, which she sees as a resource for historicizing individual subjectivities and emotions. Based in Cairo since 2023, she continues this reflexion on a transnational level, in particular through a comparison between Egypt and Algeria.
Hala BAYOUMI
Research engineer
Hala Bayoumi is a research engineer at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, which awarded its Crystal Medal to her in 2017. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science and applied mathematics from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. She is the coeditor of the Atlas of Contemporary Egypt (CEDEJ 2023) and of “Digital Archiving in the Arab World” (EMA 2020). She runs CEDEJ’s Digital Humanities unit and supervises cooperation with CAPMAS on census data maps. She organizes the training of CAPMAS employees in data analysis and GIS analysis.
