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 talk by Hossam El-Hamalawy, Maher Hamoud, and Waleed Salem, in discussion with Shana Marshall. 

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. Dr. El-Hamalawy 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 the Simons Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Simon Frasier University. Dr. Salem's work engages two areas of scholarship: law, lawyers, and political change, and oil politics in the Arabic-speaking Gulf states. In his previous life as a journalist, Waleed, under pen-name Waleed Al-Shobakky, reported for years on developments in higher education and science policy in Arab Gulf states, especially Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar (where he lived for about seven years).  The pieces that came out of that period were published in Nature, The New Atlantis, The Science and Development Network (SciDev.net), ScienceBusiness.com, and AlJazeera.net, among others. He hails from an ancient civilization that had a profound fascination with triangular structures.

• 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.