Jan Claudius Völkel

Jan Claudius Völkel is Marie Sk?odowska Curie Fellow for a research project on “The role of national parliaments in the Arab transformation processes”. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and had teaching/research appointments at the Universities of Freiburg, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Duhok (Iraqi Kurdistan), Al-Quds (Abu Dis), the Royal Scientific Society Amman and the European

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Moushira Khattab

Moushira Mahmoud Khattab, Ph.D is an Egyptian human rights activist, former politician & diplomat. She is the former Minister of Family & Population of Egypt, Former Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of Egypt to the Republic of South Africa, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well serving in Egypt’s diplomatic missions in Australia, Hungary,

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Muhammed Fadel

Muhammad Fadel is a legal expert and researcher for National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project. A graduate of Mansoura University in Egypt, Mr. Fadel is an advocate for gender justice. In Cairo, he worked as a legal researcher at Nazra for Feminist Studies in the Women’s Political Participation Academy and as a human rights attorney for

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Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani received in PhD in Economics from Harvard University and taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1977–1984) before joining the faculty at Virginia Tech, where he is currently Professor of Economics. He is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Global Economy and Development, the Brookings Institution, and a Research Fellow at the Economic Research

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Michael L. Lahr

Michael L. Lahr is the Director of Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON™). As Research Professor of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, he holds a Ph.D. in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania. At the Edward J. Bloustein School Dr. Lahr teaches a course on Urban Economy and Spatial Patterns to masters degree

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Georgeta Vidican

Since 2011, Georgeta Auktor is Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn, in the department of Sustainable Economic and Social Development. From 2008 to 2011 she was Assistant Professor at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. In 2013 she was Guest Lecturer at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences’ Institute

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Thanassis Cambanis

Thanassis Cambanis is an author, journalist and fellow at The Century Foundation, who specializes in the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. He is co-director of TCF’s “Arab Politics beyond the Uprisings.” His most recent book, Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story (Simon and Schuster: 2015), chronicles Egyptian efforts to create a new political

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Jonathan Guyer

Jonathan Guyer is a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs and contributing editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. From 2012 to 2013, he served as a Fulbright fellow researching political cartoons in Egypt. A regular contributor to Public Radio International, he has written for The Guardian, Guernica, Harper’s, Le Monde Diplomatique,

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Dalia Abd El-Hameed

Dalia Abd El-Hameed is the gender and women’s rights officer at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). She formerly worked at the right to health program at the same organization, where her mandate included national and international advocacy for sexual and reproductive health rights. Dalia’s current mandate includes advocacy for sexual and reproductive health

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