LUCAS Seminar: Maha Abdel-Rahman and Habib Ayeb 'Still an Arab Spring?'

Location: Parkinson Seminar Room 1.08 (also known as Parkinson Lecture Room)

Event co-sponsored by the Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20051/arabic_and_middle_eastern_studies

'On Protest Movements and Uprisings: Egypt's Permanent Revolution'

Maha Abdel-Rahman, University of Cambridge

Dr Abdel-Rahman teaches Development Studies and Middle East Politics at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include State/civil society relations, social movements, political Islam, and democracy and opposition politics in Egypt and the Arab World. This presentation is based on her latest research project on protest movements in Egypt since 2000.

‘The Tunisian Revolution After The First Democratic Elections: Processes, Expectations And Constraints’

Habib Ayeb, Social Research Center American University in Cairo

Dr Ayeb is a geographer who works on  water issues, social changes, access to resources, poverty and marginality. He is conducting comparative research in Egypt, Tunisia and India on competitions over agricultural, rural and environmental resources and marginalisation of small farmers.  Recent publications include La crise de la société rurale en Egypte ou la fin du fellah ? Paris. Karthala (2010)  and a joint work Water, Poverty and Social Crises; (CD). Paris. IRD.(2009)