NPF Cycle 2 Fellows
In the second cycle of the New Paradigms Factory (NPF) Program, two mentors worked with 11 promising junior scholars from across the Arab region on the theme of “nationalism and patriotism” as applied to different contexts across the region, especially in the advent of the Arab uprisings. The papers of the fellows are to be further developed into an academic publication.
Cycle 2 Mentors
Paul Amar has served from 2011-2013 as lead researcher on the project “Societal Violence and Alternative Security Practices” at Nazra for Feminist Studies in Cairo, Egypt. In the past, he has served as a Fulbright Scholar affiliated with Cairo University’s Department of Economics and Political Science, worked with the United Nations on conflict and development issues in the Middle East, cooperated on urbanism and public space research at the CEDEJ in Egypt, and been awarded fellowships for study at the American University in Cairo and the University of Marrakesh, Morocco. In 2003, he co-founded the Center for Middle East Studies at the Federal University Fluminense, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He currently serves as Associate Professor in the Global & International Studies Program of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. Amar's research, publishing, and teaching focuses on the areas of state institutions, security regimes, social movements, and democratic transitions in the Middle East and Latin America, and traces the origins and intersections of new patterns of police militarization, security governance, humanitarian intervention, and spatial transformation in the megacities of the global south. His books include Cairo Cosmopolitan (2006); Dispatches from the Arab Spring (2013); and The Security Archipelago (2013).
Hanan Sabea is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Sabea's interest in anthropology started in Egypt, where she got her BA and MA at AUC, working on issues related to development, resettlement of populations and political economy of developing countries. After nine years of working in research and development projects in Egypt and North Africa, she shifted interest to Sub-Saharan Africa, primarily East and Southern Africa where she conducted research in Tanzania, South Africa, and Mozambique. Her experiences in both North and sub-Saharan Africa were instrumental in defining one of her broader intellectual concerns, namely how the very category of Africa has been historically constructed as an object of knowledge and as a cultural-political entity subject to a long history of interventionist policies.
Cycle 2 Fellows
