Maria Golia

Maria Golia, an American writer, has lived in downtown Cairo for over two decades. She is the author of Cairo, City of Sand and Photography and Egypt (Reaktion Books, UK, 2004, 2010), non-fiction works involving extensive historical research alongside an intimate understanding of the country’s present moment. Long-time columnist for the Lebanon Daily Star and

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Fatima Ramadan

Fatima Ramadan is a researcher on labor issues. She has authored many articles and papers on the evolution of Egypt’s labor movement, unions, and social protests. She has published articles in Arabic newspapers and online about the independent union movement and its relationship to Egypt’s political sphere. She is currently the director of the women’s

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Sarah Yerkes

Sarah Yerkes is a fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on Tunisia’s political, economic, and security developments as well as state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa. She has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow and has taught

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Hani Hodaib

Hani Hodaib is a doctor who has worked in Egypt and abroad, with long experience serving rural communities. He currently serves as the head of the National AIDS Program in Fayoum, and has worked with a number of U.N. and W.H.O. programs in Egypt. In addition, Hodaib is a founding member of the Egyptian Social

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Magda Adly

Dr. Magda Adly is an anesthetist, a human rights defender, and a feminist activist. The cofounder of El Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture, she is also a member of the consultative committee for U.N. Women’s regional office, a consultant for the Women Human Rights Defenders in the MENA region, and a

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Bahey Eldin Hassan

Bahey eldin Hassan is the Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), an independent regional non-governmental organization founded in 1993 to promote respect for the principles of human rights and democracy in the Arab region. CIHRS produces analysis on the difficulties of applying international human rights law and disseminating human rights culture

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Khaled Mansour

Khaled Mansour is an independent writer and consultant on issues of human rights, humanitarian aid, and development. He served for thirteen years in the United Nations including for Unicef, peacekeeping missions, and the World Food Programme. He also led the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in 2014. https://tcf.org/experts/khaled-mansour/

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