MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: The state of Egypt, the State of Palestine

Reem teaches courses on the Comparative Politics and International Relations of the Middle East, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests include the foreign policy making of developing states, as well as nationalism in Turkey and the Arab world, and her work has appeared in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Palestine Studies, and the International Journal of Transitional Justice, among other venues. She is particularly interested in Egyptian politics and history, and is co-editor of the Egypt page at jadaliyya e-zine.

Before moving to SOAS, Reem was lecturer in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. Before that, she taught at the University of Oxford, where she was Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and the Middle East at St Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and International Relations, from 2010 to 2013. She completed her doctorate in Politics at St Antony’s College, Oxford, in 2010.