amal.abdrabo@alexu.edu.eg

Amal Adel Abdrabo is a Sociology/Anthropology Lecturer (PhD) at the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, at Alexandria University, Egypt. She is a graduate of Alexandria University and earned her first MA in 2011 with a thesis entitled "Social Movements and Human Rights: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Anti-Globalization Discourse in the Egyptian Society between 2001 to 2010." She joined the American University in Cairo with a Building the Next Generation Fellowship (BNGS-phase II) from 2014-2016, where she earned her second MA degree on a project in anthropology dealing with Palestinian Refugees in Egypt entitled "We live like Khayalat (scarecrows): An ethnography of a Palestinian village in Egypt." Simultaneously, she was working on her doctorate thesis at Alexandria University. In January 2017, she earned her PhD degree in sociology from the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, with a doctorate thesis entitled "Social Dimensions of Knowledge-based Development in Egypt: An Evaluation study of a Sample of Knowledge Precincts." During the spring semester 2019, she is a visiting postdoctoral scholar with an Oumou Dilly fellowship at the Center for African Studies at Basel. She had the same position from September 2017 to February 2018.

Egypt, Uganda, Kenya, Institutions, Civil Society, Health, Gender, Urban politics