Cycle 4 Grantees

Fouzia Borj | Social Dynamics in Oasal Spaces: Environmental Changes, Adaptation Dynamics, and Life Practices: A Cultural Ecology Approach (The Case of the Jorf Oasis in Tafilalt)

 

Lahcen Ameziane | The New Neoliberalism: Urban Areas in Moroccan Cities: Between Social Justice and Polarization

 

Mohamed Kerrou | L’oasis de Jemna au Sud-Ouest tunisien : Mouvement social de protestation, stratégie civile de reconnaissance et État national dans un contexte de globalisation 

 

Mohammad Faoubar | The Sociology of Environmental Education andEcological Justice in Secondary Education in Morocco

 

Sakr El-Nour | Environmentalism of Poverty and Dynamics of the Socio-Ecological System: A Study of the Relationship between Humans and the Environment in Egyptian Rural Areas

 

Samer Raddad | Integrating Urban Farmers in Urban Development Plans as a Form of Resistance amid Political Instability: Palestine as a Case Study

Habib Ayeb, born in Tunisia, is a social geographer, researcher and Associate Professor at the University Paris 8 in Saint Denis (France) since 1992. His domains of researches are: Competitions over resources, including water and land, in rural and agricultural areas, Poverty and marginalization dynamics and processes, Social changes, resistances and uprisings (Arab spring), Development, Environment and Climate changes, Food sovereignty. He is, currently, conducting comparative researches mainly in Egypt and Tunisia. He has worked in several different institutions including the Ministry of Agriculture in Tunisia, the University of Paris 8-St Denis, CEDEJ (Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Juridiques et Sociales), IRD (Institute of Research for Development) and from 2006 till now the SRC (Social Research Center). Habib Ayeb, is member of various institutions and networks, including:

- Ecole Doctorale des Sciences Sociales "Milieux, Cultures et Sociétés du Passé et du Présent". Paris Ouest-Nanterre University (Phd Supervisor)

- Laboratoire Mosaïques, UMR LAVUE (ex-GECKO) : Paris Ouest-Nanterre University. France

- The International Advisory Board of The Journal of Peasant Studies

- The Rural Network Thimar 

 

Rami Zurayk is Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut and a member of the High Level Panel of Experts of the Committee on Food Security (FAO/IFAD/WFP). He studied agriculture and soil science at AUB and Oxford University and was Country Representative of the International Cooperation for Development (UK) in Yemen between 1989 and 1991. He has worked in the Arab world on issues of agriculture, rural development and food security (Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Western Sahara). A long time civil society activist, he is a founding member of the Arab Food Sovereignty Network, of the Nahr el Bared Relief Campaign and of the Land and People post-war livelihood recovery program. He has published extensively on issues of food, water, environment and food security. Of relevance to this conference are his two books “Food, Farming and Freedom” (2011, Just World Books) and Control Food, Control People: The Struggle for Food Security in Gaza (with A. Gough, 2013, Institute of Palestine Studies). 

 

Reem Saad is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Her research interests include rural society, historical anthropology, and environmental issues. She received her D.Phil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where she was also the Ioma Evans-Pritchard Junior Research Fellow. She is the author of a monograph entitled “Social History of an Agrarian Reform Community in Egypt”, and co-editor (with Nicholas Hopkins) of the book Upper Egypt: Identity and Change. She was previously a research associate professor at the Social Research Center and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at the American University in Cairo. 

 

Samer S. Shehata is an Associate Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and the University of Oklahoma. He previously taught at Georgetown University, New York University, Columbia University, and the American University in Cairo. He is the author of Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt (SUNY Press, 2009 & American University in Cairo Press, 2010), and the editor of Islamist Politics in the Middle East (Routledge, 2012). His articles have appeared in both academic and policy journals, including the International Journal of Middle East Studies, MERIP, Current History, and Foreign Policy, and as book chapters and encyclopedia articles. His opinion pieces have been published in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Al Ahram Weekly, and Al Hayat. He received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Ford Foundation, and Carnegie Foundation. He has been interviewed by many media outlets, including CNN, BBC, PBS News Hour, NPR, C-Span, Al Jazeera. He received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Politics from Princeton University.