Dr. Reem Abou-El-Fadl awarded John Fell OUP Research Grant

Congratulations toDr. Reem Abou-El-Fadl who has been awarded a research grant from the John Fell OUP Research Fund for her project, The Egyptian Revolution One Year On: Causes, Characteristics and Progress. The project will run from 01 January 2012 until 31 May 2012.

Dr. Abou-El-Fadl will use the funds towards an international conference that is taking place in May 2011 in the Department of Politics and International Relations. This Conference aims for Oxford University to be the meeting point, at the juncture of one year on, for a consideration of the causes, character, and impact of the January Revolution in the Middle East. Its sessions will be divided into three themes: anticipating the revolution, bringing down the regime, and building a new order and should be followed by a roundtable, involving Oxford academics drawn from the Department of Politics and International Relations as well as the Middle East Centre, on the impact of the Arab uprisings on the scholarly field and the teaching of Middle East Politics.

This conference will feature an important collaborative dimension.Dr. Abou-El-Fadls co-convener is Professor Mustapha Kamil al-Sayyid, who teaches jointly at the American University Cairo and Cairo University, and chairs the Partners in Development organisation. The Conference will thus be realised by conveners and scholars from UK, US and Egyptian universities, allowing Oxford University to explore this most current of events with both participants and scholars on the ground in Egypt and the Arab world. The outcomes of the conference will also be disseminated among a wide student base in Euro-American institutions as well as in Egypt and the wider Arab world.