Reeham Mourad
Graduate Student
Anthropology, Sociocultural
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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About
I am an urbanist and a feminist researcher from Egypt who is trained as an Ethnographer. My research interests lie at the intersection between “urban and political” in the rapidly changing social, political, and economic realities of Cairo, the capital. The primary focus of my research encompasses authoritarian urbanism, state-building projects, rapid desert development, infrastructure, and dispossession. My master's thesis dealt with a multi-sited ethnography of social relations, women’s perceptions of safety, gender and class dynamics, gentrification, and contemporary art centers in two working-class neighborhoods in historic Cairo.
Selected Publications
Mourad, R. (2022), The Day I Became a Gentrifier: Narratives from the Outsider/Insider Ethnographer in the Field, The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region: Feminist Fieldwork and the Production of Knowledge” edited by Joseph S., Meari L., and Zaatari Z., B. Tauris, London.
Mourad, R. (2021), Space of Resistance: Women Maneuvering the Sha’bi Notions of El-Khalifa Neighborhood, Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) – Gendered Resistance Special Issue.
Notable Honors
2023, University Fellowship, UIC Graduate College
Education
MSc in Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design, University of Stuttgart and Ain Shams University (2016)
BSc in Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University (2010)