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A scholar of civil society in the Middle East, I study how civic groups and organizations work to build change from the ground up.
I am an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and a Faculty Affiliate of the Indiana University Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. I have also served as a Visiting Scholar at the American University in Cairo (Egypt) and Birzeit University (Palestine). My research examines how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), philanthropic foundations, and grassroots groups work to promote change in the Middle East. I have conducted fieldwork in Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Qatar. In Egypt, my work uncovers the strategies that local NGOs and foundations used to advance the aims of the 2011 Arab Spring Uprisings. In Palestine, I study how grassroots voluntary groups are mobilizing popular resistance and reviving a culture of voluntarism and solidarity in Palestinian society. My book, Delta Democracy: Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt and Beyond, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2020. My work has also appeared in Social Problems, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Policy Forum, and VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. I hold a PhD in Public Policy from Duke University. |
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