Editorial Review Board

Dr. Adam Hanieh taught at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates prior to joining SOAS. From 1997-2003, he worked in the NGO and public sectors in Ramallah, Palestine, where he completed an MA in Regional Studies at Al Quds University. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University, Canada (2009). His research interests include labor migration and the world market; political economy of internationalization and finance; theories of class and state formation. Dr. Hanieh is an editorial board member of Historical Materialism and a member of board of management for the Council for British Research in the Levant. He is the author of Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East (Haymarket Books, 2013), and Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011).

Fanar Haddad is a Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. He previously lectured in modern Middle Eastern politics at the University of Exeter and at Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to obtaining his PhD, Haddad was a Research Analyst at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where he worked on North Africa. He has since published widely on issues relating to historic and contemporary Iraq. His main research interests are identity, historical memory, nationalism, communal conflict and minority politics. He is the author of Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2011).

Farah Al-Nakib is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Center for Gulf Studies at the American University of Kuwait. She obtained her PhD (2011) and MA (2006) in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Her research primarily focuses on the urban history of Kuwait City before and after oil, on which she has written her first book Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life (Stanford University Press, 2016). She also writes about memory and forgetting in relation to the built environment. Her latest research analyzes the 1990-91 Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait from a social historical perspective. In spring 2016, Al-Nakib was a Carnegie Centennial Fellow at American University in Washington, DC, and she was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies in 2014. She is also a co-editor of Jadaliyya’s Cities Page.

Hassan Rachik is an anthropologist and Professor at the University Hassan II of Casablanca (1983-present), a founding member of CM2S (Moroccan Center of Social Sciences, cm2s.blogspot.com), and Director of Paul Pascon Chair for Social Sciences. He was Visiting Professor at Princeton University, Brown University, l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, and the Institute For the Study of Islamic Civilizations, London. He carried out intensive fieldwork within rural and nomadic communities in Morocco. He is the author of numerous articles and books including “How Religion Turns into Ideology”, The Journal of North African Studies, 2009, Moroccan Islam? On Geertz’s Generalization, Archivio Anthropologico Mediterraneo, 2009-2010; Sacré et sacrifice dans le haut Atlas(1990); Le sultan des autres, rituel et politique dans le Haut Atlas (1992, translated into Arabic); Comment rester nomade(2000); Symboliser la nation (2003); L’islam au quotidien (co-author, 2007, 2013, translated into Arabic); Le proche et le lointain Un siècle d’anthropologie au Maroc (2012);Anthropolgy in the Arab World (in Arabic, co-author, 2012).

Hoda Elsadda is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University and an activist for women’s rights. She previously held a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Manchester (2005-2011), and was Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK. She was also Carnegie Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in 2014-2015. In 1995, she co-founded the Women and Memory Forum and is currently the Chairperson of the organization’s Board of Governance.
Her research interests are in the areas of gender studies, women’s rights, comparative literature, and oral history. She is the author of: Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt 1892-2008 (Edinburgh University Press and Syracuse University Press, 2012).

Lena Jayyusi is Professor of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University, UAE. Dr. Jayyusi received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester, UK. She previously taught at Wellesley College, the University of Connecticut at Storrs and Cedar Crest College in the US. An Annenberg Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and SSRC Fellow, she was also a visiting researcher and Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She also served as Senior TOKTEN consultant on media and culture for the UNDP in Jerusalem, as Director of Academic Programs at al-Quds University and as Director of the Oral History Program at Shaml in Ramallah, Palestine. Her publications address topics in media studies, film and visuality, memory and narrative, communicative interaction and practical reasoning, and national identity. Her book, Categorization and the Moral Order, translated into French in 2010, was re-issued as a Routledge Revival in 2014. She edited a Reader in Media and Democracy in Arabic (Muwatin 2013). She also edited Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation 1917-the Present, (Interlink, 2015), which won a Palestine Book Award. She is co-editor of Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change, (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016). Member of international editorial boards of several journals, she serves as regional editor for the Middle East for Global Media and Communication. She is currently working on a book entitled Praxiologies: Categorization, Mediation, and the Logic of Social Practices.

Mona Harb is Professor of Urban Studies and Politics at the American University of Beirut. She received her PhD in Political Science in 2005 from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques at Aix-Marseille (France). She is the author of Le Hezbollah à Beyrouth (1985-2005): de la banlieue à la ville (Karthala-IFPO, 2010), co-author of Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi’ite South Beirut (Princeton University Press, 2013, with Lara Deeb), and co-editor of Local Governments and Public Goods: Assessing Decentralization in the Arab World (Beirut: LCPS, 2015, with Sami Atallah). Her ongoing research investigates local governance and city strategies, as well as youth mobilization and exclusion. Harb is the recipient of grants from the LSE, EU-FP7, Wenner-Gren, ACLS, and the Middle-East Awards. She serves on the editorial boards of IJURR and CSSAME, and is a trustee of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences. She is the founder and co-editor of the Cities Page on Jadaliyya e-zine.

Myriam Ababsa is a Social Geographer based in Jordan since 2000. A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure Fontenay-Saint Cloud (1993-1997) and of the Department of Geography (Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne), she holds a PhD in Geography from the University François Rabelais of Tours (2004). Her work focuses on the impact of public policies on regional and urban development in Jordan and Syria. She questions governance, public participation in housing policies and service delivery. She has directed the Atlas of Jordan. History, Territories, Society (Beirut : Ifpo 2013, 485 p.). She has co-edited with Dr. Rami Daher, Cities, Urban Practices and Nation Building in Jordan (Beirut: IFPO, 2011) and co-edited with Baudouin Dupret and Eric Denis Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East (University of Cairo Press, 2012). Her PhD thesis received the Syrian Studies Association Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize, in 2006. It was published by Ifpo in 2009 : Raqqa, territoires et pratiques sociales d’une ville syrienne. She is an associate researcher at the Ifpo Amman (Institut français du Proche-Orient). She works currently as a consultant for the World Bank on Jordan Housing Strategy.

Philippe Fargues is a sociologist and demographer. He is the founding Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. He held senior positions at the National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris and the American University in Cairo and taught at Harvard, and various universities in France, the Middle East and Africa. His research interests include migration, population and politics, demography and development. His recent publications include: Migration from North Africa and the Middle East: Skilled Migrants, Development and Globalisation (IB Tauris, 2015), Is What We Hear About Migration Really True? Questioning Eight Migration Stereotypes (EUI, 2014); International Migration and the Nation State in Arab Countries (Middle East Law and Governance, 2013); Demography, Migration and Revolt in the South of the Mediterranean (Brookings, 2012); Immigration without Inclusion: Non-Nationals in Nation-Building in the Gulf States (Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2011);International Migration and the Demographic Transition: a Two-Way Interaction (International Migration Review, 2011).

Tariq Tell is a political economist who joined PSPA after two years teaching at the Centre for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES). He has previously taught at the American University in Cairo and the University of Manchester (UK). He has also held research posts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and in Amman, Jordan at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur le Moyen Orient Contemporain (CERMOC now part of IFPO) and the Royal Scientific Society. While at CAMES Tell taught courses on State Formation and Social Movements and Imperialism and Colonialism in the Middle East. Tell has co-edited Village, Steppe and State: The Social Origins of Modern Jordan (I.B. Tauris, 1994) and edited The Resilience of Hashemite Rule: Politics and the State in Jordan before 1967 (Cahier de Cermoc, 2001). His book, The Social and Economic Origins of Monarchy in Jordan was published by Palgrave in 2013 and he is now working on a Historical Dictionary of Modern Jordan (to be published in 2017 by Scarecrow Press, Boston). He has degrees from St. Antony’s College (Oxford University), the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) and the London School of Economics and Political Science. His current research interests include the comparative history and politics of Arab monarchies and the relationship between imperialism, food sovereignty and political stability in the Middle East.