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RESEARCHING

Currently doing a Ph.D in political science on:
"Tourism Development, Heritage Management and Social Change in Egypt: Luxor city as a case study"; To be submitted at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris (Fall 2003).

Affiliated to the Cedej, a French research institute based in Cairo, I carried out a programme on electoral process in Egypt (1995 parliamentary elections). Results were published in 1997.

Related interests:
Local politics, development issues, political and social representation, bedouin heritage, south of Egypt.

CONSULTING

United Nations Development Program in Egypt:
-Consultant
-Editing and translation for the Arab Human Development Report 2001.

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA):
Researcher-consultant

TEACHING

American University in Cairo
Political Science Department
"Introduction to European politics and EU institutions"

Cairo University
Filière francophone de Science Politique: "Political theory"
IDAI, Law Faculty: "Introduction to political sociology"

Social Science in Egypt and the Middle East