Associate Professor @Rutgers_Newark| Fellow @CarnegieEndow| Author of Women and the Egyptian Uprising(CUP) | Researching #gender#Egypt#MENA#socialmovements
Join us for my book launch this Wednesday, September 5 at George Washington University @GWtweets Thanks Marc Lynch @abuaardvark @CambridgeUP @MariaSoleMarsh https://t.co/dcbwvV5eD4
Join us for the Women’s & Gender Studies Program’s annual symposium, “Gender, Power, and Political Life,” on March 23 at Ackerson Hall.
Featuring a book talk by @MarwaShalaby12 on Varieties of Power: Women’s Political Representation in Arab Parliaments.
Kellogg Visiting Fellow @nerminallam (Rutgers University Newark) last week published an analysis for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (where she is a nonresident fellow in the Middle East Program) on "Gender Politics and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Scholarship Program." Through interviews with alumnae of the program, she finds that studying abroad changed their stances toward veiling, gender reform, and professional life at home. Read more: https://t.co/V9sqqOcOd6
@Rutgers_Newark@CarnegieEndow
My latest piece @CarnegieEndow looking at the lived experiences of women in Saudi study abroad programs and their role in the monarchy’s shifting gender landscape! So grateful for my interviewees for entrusting me with their stories @RutgersSASN@KelloggInst@gusrutgers
The share of Saudi women with study abroad scholarships doubled in 10 years, signaling women’s education as central to Vision 2030.
@nerminallam explores the lived experiences of women in education and their role in the Saudi Arabia’s shifting gender landscape: https://t.co/QCBIJ6Uh5o
📢 Final Reminder!
MENA scholars, apply now for the 2025 IQMR Summer Institute at Syracuse University! 🌍✨
🎓 Training in qualitative & multi-method research
🆓 Fully sponsored spots for 3 scholars
📅 June 15–27, 2025
👉 https://t.co/4MSySSQu23
My article @PoPpublicsphere What does it mean to authentically engage in field site&with academia when certain aspects of our true being deviate from established norms in both? Grateful to 🤍interviewees who shared their insights on fieldwork in patriarchal authoritarian contexts
Appreciate the shout out @KelloggInst! And so excited to join @CarnegieEndow as a non-resident fellow and collaborating with brilliant minds! @RutgersSASN
Kellogg Visiting Fellow Nermin Allam (Rutgers University – Newark) has been named a nonresident fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace! Her research focuses on gender politics and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa. Congratulations Nermin!
@nerminallam@Rutgers_Newark@CarnegieEndow
🚨 The American Political Science Association (APSA) is seeking political scientists to co-lead the 2025 MENA Workshop! This 6-day in-person will take place in the MENA region in summer 2025.
🗓 Deadline: November 3, 2024
🌍 Learn more & apply: https://t.co/F8MhdqfMEA
Our Fall issue for APSA MENA Newsletter is out! The publication comes with bittersweet emotions, it marks the last issue of MENA Politics under our editorship! Moving forward, the dream team— @dbgreenwald, @sebnemisback, @DrSamerShehata takes over https://t.co/jKK6AAWtGR
In their respective pieces, Valentine Moghadam and Gamze Çavdar @FemmeMena raise and answer important methodological and analytical questions for studying gender politics and democratic backsliding