The War on Gaza One Year On: Tough Questions about the Future
Abdul Latif Jameel Hall - Room P090
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
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While the horrors of this war exceed any of the previous rounds of violence experienced by the Palestinians, it has also brought into sharp focus tough and urgent questions about the future. What is the way forward? What might a Palestinian strategy to end the occupation look like? What do the last twelve months tell us about the future balance of power in the region? What can regional and international solidarity movements realistically offer the Palestinians?
Speakers:
Amr Adly
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Rabab El Mahdi
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Karim Haggag
Professor of Practice, Department of Public Policy and Administration
Hani Sayed
Associate Professor, Department of Law
Moderator:
Khaled Ezzelarab
Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
Speakers
Dr. Amr Adly
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department,AUC
Amr Adly is Assistant Professor in the department of political science at The American University in Cairo (AUC). He worked as a researcher at the Middle East directions program at the European University Institute. He worked as a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research centered on political economy, development studies, and economic sociology of the Middle East, with a focus on Egypt.
Adly has taught political economy at AUC and Stanford University. He has also worked as a project manager at the center of democracy, development, and the rule of law at Stanford University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow.Adly is the author of cleft capitalism: the social origins of failed market-making in Egypt(Stanford University Press, 2020) and state reform and development in the Middle East: the cases of Turkey and Egypt (Routledge, 2012). He has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Geoforum, Business and Politics, the journal of TurkishStudies, and Middle Eastern Studies. Adly is also a frequent contributor to print and online news sources, including Bloomberg, Jadaliyya, and Al-Shorouk.
Rabab El Mahdi ’96, ’98
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
The American University in Cairo
Rabab El Mahdi is an associate professor of political science at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She earned her PhD from McGill University in Montreal, where she wrote her dissertation on the impact of neo-liberal economic reconstruction on changing patterns of state-civil society relations in Egypt and Bolivia. Her field of specialization is comparative political economy and development, with a focus on Latin America and the Middle East. El Mahdi’s research interests cover the areas of state-civil society relations, social movements and resistance, as well as the political economy of social policy. Before joining AUC, she worked for several developmental organizations, including Non-governmental organizations and United Nation agencies. Previously she taught at Yale University and was a recipient of a number of fellowships at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residency. She is also the recipient of a number of research grants from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. Currently, she leads AUC's research project, Alternative Policy Solutions (APS). She serves on the boards of a number of civil society and professional organizations, including the Arab Political Science Network (APSN).
Hani Sayed
Associate Professor, Law Department
The American University in Cairo
Hani Sayed has joined AUC's Department of Law in 2005. He received a Licence en Droit from the Faculty of Law at Damascus University, a D.E.S. in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the HEI in Université de Genève, and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. He teaches and writes in a diverse set of topics in international law including human rights and humanitarian law, law and development, international economic law, global governance and legal theory.
Mr. Khaled Ezzelarab
Associate Professor of Practice at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, The American University in Cairo
Karim Haggag
Professor of Practice, Department of Public Policy and Administration
The American University in Cairo
Haggag is a professor of practice and director of the Master of Global Affairs Program at AUC’s School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He is a career Egyptian diplomat with over 25 years of service in Egypt’s diplomatic corps. Throughout his career, Haggag has served in numerous capacities focusing on U.S.-Egyptian relations, Middle East regional security, arms control and non-proliferation and Arab-Israeli diplomacy.
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Alternative Policy Solutions - Middle East Studies Program
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