American University of Beirut
The Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media
Studies
Cordially invites you to a Brownbag
“State Analysis from Below:
Looking at the politics of informality in Egypt”
By
Prof. Cilja Harders
Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics
Freie Universität Berlin
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
12:00 - 1:00 pm
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Cilja Harders is the director of the “Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics” at
the Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin and has held this position
since 2007. She has extensive research experience in the Middle East with a focus on Egypt
since 1992. She has published on local politics, transformations and politics “from below”, ArabEuropean Relations as well as gender relations. She co-edited a book on “Local Politics and
Contemporary Transformations in the Arab World,” with Palgrave in 2013. Cilja Harders is
currently directing a project on “Political participation, emotion, affect, and transformation” in
the framework of the German research Council (DFG)-funded research Centre “Affective
Societies” (DFG, 2015-2019). She co-directed a mulitlateral a project “Challenges and
Transformations in the Wake of the Arab Spring” with Cairo University funded by the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, 2012-2015). The Centre is also involved in two
EuUprojects, namely MERID (Middle East Research and Innovation Dialogue, 2015-2017) and
EMNES (Euro-Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies) under H2020 EU funding (20152017).