The Afterlife of Egypt's 2nd Republic

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Join the Institute for Middle East Studies and the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies at Simon Fraser University for a discussion about Egypt's security, media, and justice systems since the fall of the second republic. Speakers include Egyptian journalist and scholar-activist Dr. Hossam El-Hamalawy, political and economic development lecturer and researcher Maher Hamoud, and Egyptian writer and scholar Dr. Waleed Salem, with Dr. Shana Marshall of the George Washington University serving as discussant.

Speakers:

• Dr. Hossam el-Hamalawy, is an Egyptian journalist and scholar-activist based in Germany. His work focuses on Egypt’s military, security services, political economy, and counterrevolution. He publishes State & Barracks, a weekly newsletter examining the nexus of military power, money, and the state in Egypt. It features reporting, analysis, and military history, usually published twice a week.

   

• Dr. Maher Hamoud is a lecturer and researcher in Political Economy of Development. He received his PhD in Political Sciences at Ghent University in 2017, Department of Conflict and Development Studies, where he also held a postdoctoral position until January 2022. He received his MA in Economic Development at the American University in Cairo in 2009. He was also the editor-in-chief of the Cairo-based Daily News Egypt. Within the domain of political economy of development, his current research focuses on the intersectionality between development politics, value chains, industrialisation, and international trade with and within the Global South.

• Dr. Waleed Salem is an Egyptian scholar and journalist. He writes about authoritarian politics, comparative judicial politics, and the politics of the Arab Gulf states. Waleed earned his PhD in political science from the University of Washington with a dissertation entitled “Seeing Like a Court: Judicial Agency in Autocratic Regimes and Transition Politics – The Case of Egypt.” His previous research affiliations, alongside the University of Washington, include the International Relations Department at the Central European University in Vienna, the Political Science Department at the American University in Cairo, and the Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), also in Cairo. His journalistic work appeared in Nature magazine, The New Atlantis, New Lines Magazine, and Al Jazeera, among others.

• Dr. Shana Marshall is Associate Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and Assistant Research Professor of International Affairs. She is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute, a member of the Forum on the Arms Trade network and co-leads the working group on Transnational War Economies with the Security in Context project. Dr. Marshall earned her PhD from the University of Maryland-College Park, and prior to joining GW held fellowships at The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.