{"id":3014,"date":"2012-05-02T12:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/?page_id=3014"},"modified":"2012-05-02T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:29:21","slug":"reem-saads-cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/reem-saads-cv\/","title":{"rendered":"Reem Saad&#8217;s CV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>CURRICULUM VITAE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Name:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reem Saad<\/p>\n<p>Address:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3 El-Sibak St. Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt<br \/>\n50 Bis Rue Charles De Gaulle<br \/>\nDeuil La Barre, 95170, France<\/p>\n<p>Telephone: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +20 2 2635 3666 \u00a0Home<br \/>\n+20 2 2615 1317\/1750\u00a0 Office<br \/>\n+20 12 224 67 25 mobile<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0reemsaad@aucegypt.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 1994: D.Phil. Social Anthropology, St. Antony&#8217;s College, Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Thesis Title:\u00a0 &#8220;Peasants&#8217; perceptions of recent Egyptian history&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1987\u00a0 MA Department of Sociology- Anthropology, American University in Cairo \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Thesis title: &#8220;Social history of an Agrarian Reform Community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>1984\u00a0 BA American University in Cairo (with Highest Honours).<br \/>\nMajor: Middle East Studies. Minor: Sociology-Anthropology.<\/p>\n<p>1979\u00a0 G.C.E. O Level, British Council, Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>School: Ramses College for Girls, Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LANGUAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arabic:\u00a0\u00a0 Mother tongue<br \/>\nEnglish:\u00a0 Fluent<br \/>\nFrench:\u00a0\u00a0 Reading knowledge<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 2010- Present. Director, Middle East Studies Center- American University in Cairo<\/p>\n<p>September 2002- Present- \u00a0Research Associate Professor. Social Research Center.\u00a0 American University in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>January 1996-August 2002 : Research Assistant Professor. Social Research Center. American University in Cairo<\/p>\n<p><strong>SRC Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The Organisation of Work and Production in Qena and Aswan. (DANIDA and Ford Foundation)<\/p>\n<p>Task: Qualitative Research Coordinator\u00a0 (Anthropologist in one village in Aswan Governorate, and supervising field work in a village in Qena governorate.)<\/p>\n<p>2. Social and Economic Impacts of New Egyptian Land Reform Legislation on the Rural Economy. (Ford Foundation)<\/p>\n<p>Task: Co-Principal Investigator<\/p>\n<p>3. Rural transformation in Upper Egypt: Formal and Informal Structures and Institutions. (DANIDA and Ford Foundation)<\/p>\n<p>Task: Principal Investigator of project: Trade and Exchange in Upper Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>4. Ethnographic exhibition on Upper Egyptian society and culture. Moesgaard Museum. Aarhus. Denmark (April 2003-April 2004)<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cRural Responses to Globalization in Egypt\u201d. \u00a0Co-Principal Investigator and primary responsible for the project component entitled: \u201cTransformations of marginality: the impact of globalisation on rural crafts and craftsmen in Upper Egypt\u201d. The Ford Foundation<\/p>\n<p>6. Mit Badr Halawa Workers in Paris: Pilot ethnography with video documentation. \u00a0Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex and FMRS-AUC. September 2004- March 2005 (Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0 Poor Women and Access to Agricultural Resources in MENA: Implications for Biodiversity. Principal Investigator. IDRC. April 2005- September 2006.<\/p>\n<p>8. Emerging Democratic Practices in Rural Egypt<strong>. <\/strong>Principal Investigator. \u00a0Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute. January 2007-June 2008.<\/p>\n<p>8. Poverty Dynamics and Access to Resources in Rural Mena: A gendered approach. Principal Investigator (2007-2010) Ford Foundation and Oxfam-Novib<\/p>\n<p>9. Rural Environment, marginalisation and access to resources. (2010-2012). Ford Foundation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other relevant work experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September-December 1995. Assistant director for documentary: \u201cFour Women of Egypt\u201d. National Film Board, Canada, released 1997. (Winner Best Long Documentary Prize and Public\u2019s Prize, Portugal Film Festival 1997)<\/p>\n<p>1993-1995. Ioma-Evans Pritchard Junior Research Fellow, St. Anne&#8217;s College, University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>August 1993. Tutorial Instructor for Institute for Scholars in International Studies- Europe (ISISE), Oxford.<br \/>\nCourse: Women in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 1990-August 1991 Anthropologist for the documentary &#8220;Marriage Egyptian Style&#8221;, Under the Sun series, BBC 2, released 1992. (Honorable Mention winner in the 1993 Golden Gate Awards Competition, San Francisco International Film Festival).<\/p>\n<p>Spring 1991 Part-time instructor, American University in Cairo. Course: Core-Curriculum Seminar (selected texts in humanities and social sciences).<\/p>\n<p>1984-87\u00a0 Graduate Assistant, Department of Sociology\/ Anthropology, American University in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>Summer 1986 Desert Development Center, American University in Cairo: Two months field researcher in a study entitled: &#8220;Community and participation in the new lands: the Case of South Tahrir&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Summer 1983: Shalakany Law Office, Cairo: Translation and secretarial work<\/p>\n<p>1979-1989: Organizer and counsellor for summer camps in Alexandria, Egypt YWCA.<br \/>\nExperience with children, adolescents, university students and disabled children (mentally disabled and deaf-mute).<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Hopkins et al. &#8220;Participation and Community in the Egyptian New Lands: the Case of South Tahrir&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cairo Papers in Social Science. Spring 1988. Vol.11, No. 1. (With seven others) (Monograph).<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. &#8220;Social History of an Agrarian Reform Community&#8221; <em>Cairo Papers in Social Science <\/em>Winter 1988. Vol.11 No.4.(Monograph).<\/p>\n<p>Sohair Morsy, Cynthia Nelson, Reem Saad and Hania Sholkamy. &#8220;Anthropology and the call for indigenization of social science in the Arab World&#8221; in <em>The Study of the Contemporary Arab World<\/em>. E.Sullivan and J. Ismael (ed.) University of Alberta Press, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. &#8220;<em>Ma&#8217;ani al-Ruqi wal Hubut al-Fani fi Turkiya wa Misr<\/em>&#8220;. (Meanings of artistic refinement and degeneration in Turkey and Egypt). <em>Al-Qahira<\/em>. No. 138. May 1994. (in Arabic).<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. &#8220;Situer le village Egyptien: La recherche d&#8217;une unite representative&#8221; (Locating the Egyptian Village: Peasants&#8217; voice and &#8220;the representative unit&#8221;). <em>Egypte\/Monde Arabe <\/em>no. 25- 1er trimestre 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. &#8220;Les deux passes des paysans de Nasser: Memoire politique et vie quotidienne dans un village d&#8217;Egypte&#8221;. (The Two Pasts of Nasser&#8217;s Peasants: Political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village) <em>Peuples Mediterraneens<\/em>, no. 74-75. janvier-juin 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201c\u2019Ceci N\u2019est Pas La Femme Egyptienne!\u2019 L\u2019Egypte entre representations occidentales et discours nationaliste\u201d. <em>Egypte\/Monde arabe<\/em> no. 30-31- 2e et 3e trimestres 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. &#8220;Shame, Reputation and Egypt&#8217;s Lovers: A controversy over the nation&#8217;s image.&#8221; <em>Visual Anthropology<\/em>, vol 10, nos 2-4. 1998. {Also appeared in Catalan in: <em>Nueva antropologia de las sociedades mediterraneas<\/em>. Ed Maria-Angels Roque. Barcelona: Institut Catala de la Mediterrania. 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cHegemony in the Periphery: Community and exclusion in an Upper Egyptian village.\u201d In <em>Directions of Change in Rural Egypt<\/em>. Nicholas Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard (eds) American University Press.1998.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cThe Nation in the Village: War and migration in narratives of Egyptian peasants\u201d. In <em>Cairo Papers in Social Science- Twenty Years of Development in Egypt (Part II). <\/em>Volume 21, Monograph 4, Winter 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cState, Landlord, Parliament and Peasant: the story of the 1992 tenancy law in Egypt.\u201d In, <em>Agriculture in Egypt fromPharaonic to Modern Times<\/em>, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. 96. Alan Bowman and Eugene Rogan (eds). Oxford University Press. pp. 387-404. 1999<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cAgriculture and Politics in Contemporary Egypt: the 1992 Tenancy Crisis\u201d.\u00a0 <em>Cairo Papers in Social Science<\/em><em>: Discourses in Contemporary Egypt- Political and Social Issues. Enid Hill (ed). <\/em>Volume 22, Number 4<em>.<\/em> Winter 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201c War in the Social Memory of Egyptian Peasants\u201d. In <em>War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East<\/em>. Steven Heydemann (ed). University of California Press. 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad. \u201cEgypt\u201d.\u00a0 <em>Countries and their Cultures<\/em>. Volume 2. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember (Eds). NY: Macmillan Reference USA. 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. Egyptian Politics and the Tenancy Law. In <em>Counter-Revolution in Egypt\u2019s Countryside: Land and Farmers in the Era of Economic Reform<\/em>. Ray Bush (ed). London: Zed Books. 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cThe two pasts of Nasser\u2019s peasants: Political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village\u201d. In History and the Present Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh (eds) . New Delhi: Permanent Black Press. 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cThe end of secure tenancy: the meaning of land loss for evicted tenants\u201d (in Arabic). In:\u00a0 <em>Land and Peasant in Egypt<\/em>.\u00a0 Erian Nassif (ed). Arab Research Center. 2002. Pamphlet 12.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cPeople, pollution and the government\u201d (Review article in Arabic). <em>Weghaat Nazar<\/em>. January 2002. No. 36. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cCrafts\u201d. In Upper Egypt: Life along the Nile. Catalogue for Exhibition on Upper Egyptian society and culture. Moesgaard Museum. Aarhus. Denmark. Ed. Nicholas Hopkins.\u00a0 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad. \u201cIntroduction to Upper Egypt\u201d. In Nicholas Hopkins (ed). <em>Upper Egypt: Life Along the Nile<\/em>.\u00a0 Moesgaard Museum. Aarhus. Denmark. Ed. Nicholas Hopkins. 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cA Moral Order Reversed? Agricultural land changes hands, again.\u201d. In Politics from above, politics from below : the Middle East in the age of economic reform \/ edited by Eberhard Kienle.<br \/>\nLondon : Saqi, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. (2003).\u00a0 \u201cMud-brick or no mud-brick? Architectural preference in two Upper Egyptian communities. <em>Jordens Folk<\/em>. April. Volume 38. No.1.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad (eds). <em>Upper Egypt: Identity and Change<\/em>. American University in Cairo Press. 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad. \u201cThe Region of Upper Egypt: Identity and Change\u201d. In Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad (eds). <em>Upper Egypt: Identity and Change<\/em>. American University in Cairo Press. 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cSocial Reproduction and Social Transformation: Trade and Exchange Relations in the Rural South\u201d. In: Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad (eds). <em>Upper Egypt: Identity and Change<\/em>. American University in Cairo Press. 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. \u201cTransforming the meaning and value of traditional crafts in Egypt\u201d. In <em>Cairo Papers In Social Science Special Issue: Cultural Dynamics in Contemporary Egypt.<\/em> Vol. 27. Nos 1&amp;2. \u00a02006.<\/p>\n<p>Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Malak Rouchdy and Reem Saad. <em>Cairo Papers In Social Science Special Issue: Cultural Dynamics in Contemporary Egypt. (Editors).<\/em> Vol. 27. Nos 1&amp;2.\u00a0 2006<em> <\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. &#8220;Egyptian Workers in Paris- Economic Migration and the Male Burden under Transnationalism&#8221;. <em>Kvinder, K\u00f8n &amp; Forskning (Women, Gender &amp; Research)\u00a0<\/em> 2-3\/2007 &#8220;Transnational Experiences: Europe &#8211; Middle East&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Reem Saad. &#8220;Al-Ta\u2019aqlum wal Muqawma wal Fe\u2019l: Al-tanmit wal-tamgid fi Deraset Al-Fallah Al-Misri. (Coping, Resistance and Agency: Stereotyping and glorification in the study of Egyptian peasants)&#8221;. In <em>Intaj al-Ma\u2019rifa an al-Alam al-Arabi<\/em> (Knowledge Production on the Arab World). Ed. Hoda Elsadda. Cairo: Supreme Council of Culture. 2009<\/p>\n<p><strong>AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dean&#8217;s Academic Honor Roll: 1981, 1982, 1983. American University in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>1988 Peter Lienhardt Memorial Award, University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>1988-1989 Overseas Research Award, Universities and Colleges in the UK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Positions in academic journals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editorial Board member <em>Cairo Papers in Social Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing Editor for the <em>Review of African Political Economy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contributing Editor for <em>MERIP <\/em>(The Middle East Research and Information Project)<\/p>\n<p>Member of the International Advisory Board, <em>Journal of Peasant Studies<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Member of the International Advisory Committee of <em>Ethnos <\/em>(Journal of Anthropology, National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm). 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