Curriculum Vitae

Education

2013
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), U.K.

2007
MSc in Social Anthropology and Development Studies, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

2005
B.A in Economics and minor in Political Science, The American University in Cairo (AUC).

Present Position

2012-2014
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Industry and Inequality Research Group.

Teaching

2008
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Development in the South Seminar, Geography Department, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

2006
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Economics Department, The American University in Cairo (AUC).

Fieldwork

2013-2014
Egypt (forthcoming). Research at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company in Helwan and the surrounding agriculture area. Research in a worker-run plant in Giza.

2008-2010
Egypt. Research on the shop-floors and in the company town of the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company in Al-Tibbin, Helwan.

Grants and Awards

2011
The Emirates PhD Award for Middle East Studies, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

2010
The Alfred Gell Memorial Scholarship Award, Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

2009
Dissertation Fieldwork Research Award, the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

2008
Gender and Work Program Award, The Population Council, North Africa and West Asia.

2008
Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

2007
Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Conference Papers

2013
Cairo Papers in Social Sciences, The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt. Title: “ʾIstiqrār (Stability) and the Quest for Permanent Employment in Revolutionary Egypt”.

2012
Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Germany. Title: “The Political Economy of Debt in Revolutionary Egypt”.

2012
Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics (LSE), U.K.. Title: “Subverting Shop-floor Hierarchies: Workers, Engineers and Joking Relationships at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Plant”.

2011
Re: Work Summer Academy, University of Humboldt and V.V Giri National Labour Institute, New Delhi, India. Title: “Work and Life Histories of Egyptian Public Steel Workers in Helwan”.

2011
Middle East Centre, The London School of Economics (LSE), U.K.. Title “Steel Lives under Reforms: Everyday experience of class at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Plant in Helwan”.

2011
Work and Labour Seminar, Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics (LSE), U.K. Title: “Man and Machinery: Everyday Politics of Labour in a Steel Plant in Helwan”.

2010
Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Title: “Daily Workers and ‘the Economy of Hope’ at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Plant”.

2010
Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Annual Conference, San Diego, U.S.A.. Title: “We are like father and son”: Neo-liberalism and Everyday Production Relations at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Plant in Helwan.

2010
The Economic and Business History Research Centre, The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Title: “The Experience of Industrialisation at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Plant through Time”.

2009
Egyptian Labour Movement Workshop, School of Oriental and African Studies, U.K.. Title: “Changing History? Everyday Labour Relations at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Plant and Implications on Workers' Collective Action”.

Languages

Arabic (native), English, French, German