اشترك في قائمة البريد الإلكتروني
زملاء
ما بعد الدكتوراة
2025/2026
Amr
Khairy
Amr Khairy Ahmed holds a PhD in human ecology (Lund University). He researches social and cultural histories of energy and technology in nineteenth-century Egypt, from the interdisciplinary perspective of Anthropocene History. His PhD thesis “Egypt Ignited: How Steam Power Arrived on the Nile and Integrated Egypt into Industrial Capitalism (1820s-76)” presented a social history of the arrival of fossil fuels to Egypt, through industrialisation, agrarian production, debts, and colonialism across the nineteenth-century. His ongoing projects include questions of solar energy for agriculture in contemporary arid environments, and the conceptual history of macroeconomics and engineering in Egypt.
Yasmin
Shafei
Yasmin Shafei holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history from the American University of Beirut. She received her MA and BA in International Relations from the American University in Cairo. Her research focuses on intersections of colonial studies and the histories of medicine and mental health. Specifically, her dissertation explored primary documents at the National Archives in Egypt and the United Kingdom to investigate the impact of British colonial rule on the development of psychiatry and Egypt’s state asylums during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through an analysis of a wide range of primary sources, her dissertation also examined the lived experiences of both patients and their families, further interrogating the impacts of class and gender. Prior to embarking on her Ph.D. journey, she spent 15 years working with Oxfam and several United Nations agencies on regional issues related to refugees, gender, education, and health.
Laura Monfleur
Laura Monfleur holds a PhD in Geography from Université de Tours, 2025. Her research focuses on urban transformations in the Greater Cairo area and on everyday practices. For her post-doctoral project, she will work on everyday photographic practices of the streets and in the streets. She uses visual methods and approaches of co-production of knowledge (mental maps for example) to grasp sensible experience of public spaces in an evolving capital.
زملاء
الدكتوراة
2025/2026
alaa Attiah
Mitwaly
Alaa Attiah is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, where her research is undertaken in collaboration with the School of Environment. Her dissertation, an ethnographic and archival study of the Sinai Peninsula, examines the politics of sovereignty and environmental futures. By tracing the social and material life of wells, her research explores how Bedouin infrastructures and desert mobilities form a critique of the fossil-fueled imaginaries and repressive mega-projects dominating the region. This work interrogates the colonial and liberal contours of state sovereignty by centering alternative practices of movement, water management, and territoriality.
Alongside her thesis work, Alaa is engaged in a project to edit and translate a 17th-century Islamic manuscript, Sheikh Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī’s ‘Ayn al-ḥayāt fī ʿilm inbāt al-miyāh,
contributing to the study of environmental and cosmological knowledge in early modern Islamic thought. Her research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, and Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University and the American University in Cairo and is a co-editor at the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). She holds an MA in Anthropology from the American University in Cairo.
Dina El-Baradie
Dina El-baradie is a PhD candidate in modern Middle East history at Georgetown University, specializing in gender, social and cultural history. Her doctoral dissertation, which is both a history and ethnography, uses the evolution of the Egyptian rap scene as a lens to examine transformations in Egyptian youth culture – particularly as it relates to class identity/hierarchies, gender norms/ideals, and political awareness/engagement — as well as shifts in power dynamics within Egypt’s cultural production landscape. Her research also considers the impact of global media capitalism and cultural flows on Egyptian hip hop culture, interrogating how notions of authenticity, innovation, and artistic legitimacy are negotiated in the rapidly evolving scene.
Prior to her PhD, Dina obtained an MA in Near & Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS, University of London. Her earlier research focused on the Egyptian military, particularly through the lens of collective memory, public history, and reception studies. Before her return to academia, she worked as a public sector consultant at PwC Middle East.
MaRYAM HISHAM
Maryam Hisham Fouad is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, where her research explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, international development, and state governance in the Global South, with a focus on Egypt. Her current doctoral project examines state institutional care for young women, tracing how moral, political, and developmental logics converge in the regulation of sexuality and respectability.
She holds an MA in Sociology and Anthropology from the American University in Cairo (AUC), graduating with highest honours. Her thesis, titled Those Who Are Among the Ruins of Daily Lives: The Case Study of Cairo and Its Children in Street Situations, offered an ethnographic engagement with the lived realities of street children in Cairo, exploring themes of precarity, kinship, and affect in urban life. She also holds a BA in Political Science from AUC with a minor in History and a specialisation in International Relations. Her scholarly and professional contributions have been recognised with multiple awards, including the Magda Al-Nowaihi Award for Best Thesis in Gender Studies (2020) and the HUSS Award for Academic Excellence from AUC.
Maryam has worked extensively in both academia and the development sector. From 2020 to 2024, she taught undergraduate courses in sociology at AUC. She also mentored undergraduate researchers through the Tomorrow’s Leaders Gender Scholars program. She has also managed large-scale development projects focused on vulnerable populations in Egypt, particularly women and children in street situations.
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