Dr. Reem Abou-El-Fadl

Post: Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations & Conflict Resolution in the Middle East

Introduction

Reem Abou-El-Fadl is Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East at St Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research interests include Egyptian, Turkish and Palestinian political history, as well as the foreign policy making of developing states. She is also interested in Arabic and Turkish music and cinema. She teaches courses on Middle East Politics and International Relations. She completed her doctorate in Politics at St Antony's College, Oxford, comparing foreign policy and nation building in 1950s Turkey and Egypt. Her current research examines Egyptian support for the Palestinian Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s. This research is situated within the framework of the British Academy project on ‘Teaching Contemporary Palestinian Political History’ (TCPH), based jointly at St Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and International Relations.

18-19 May 2012: Convener, International Conference on 'The Egyptian Rvolution, One Year On: Causes, Characteristics and Fortunes' at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Programme and registration details here.

Publications

Academic Publications

Book chapter, ‘Turkey’s Cold War Alliance: Nation Building and the Utility of the 1957 Syrian Crisis,’ in Raymond Hinnebusch and Özlem Tür eds., Turkey-Syria Relations: Between Enmity and Amity, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.

Article, 'The Road to Jerusalem through Tahirir Square: Anti-Zionism and Palestine in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, 'Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Winter 2012), pp. 6-26.

Article, 'Beyond Conventional Transitional Justice: Egypt's 2011 Revolution and the Absence of Political Will,' International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 6, 2012.

Book Chapter, 'Arab Perceptions of Contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy: Cautious Engagement and the Question of Independence', in Another Empire? Turkey's Foreign Policy Transformations, eds., Kerem Oktem, Ayse Kadioglu and Mehmet Karli (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Press, 2012).

Encyclopaedia entry: 'Egypt', in Oxford University Encyclopaedia of Political Islam, ed. Emad Shahin (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2012).

Book Review, 'Exploring Turkish Culture: Essays, Interviews and Reviews', by Laurence Raw, Insight Turkey, Vol. 14, No. 1, January - March 2012, pp. 178-180.

Article, 'Mohamed Morsy Mubarak: The Myth of Egypt's Democratic Transition,' Jadaliyya, 11 February 2013.

Article, 'Trying Mubarak', Jadaliyya, 14 August 2011.

Film Review, 'From Gun to Pen: The Palestinian Revolution Lives' on 'This Is My Picture When I Was Dead' (dir. Mahmoud al-Massad, 2010), Jadaliyya, 11 May 2011, reprinted 27 September 2011.

Co-editor, with Kerem Öktem, Mutual Misunderstandings: Muslims in the European Media – Europe in the Media of Muslim Majority Countries (Oxford University European Studies Centre with the Gerda Henkel Foundation, 2009).

Book chapter, ‘Europe and Islam in Context, Identity in Politics: Concluding Remarks’, in Mutual Misunderstandings, pp. 126-142.

Book review: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, 'The Politics of Secularism in International Relations' (Princeton, 2008) Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 37.3 (2009), pp. 833-835.

LSE Doctoral Discussion Paper, ‘Turkey’s Accession to NATO: Building a “Little America”’, Contemporary Turkish Studies Working Paper Series online, December 2009.

Media Publications

'Suleiman for President: Old Battle Lines Redrawn,' Egypt Independent, 9 April 2012.

'The Qasr al-Ainy Events: War on the Revolution', Al-Shorouk newspaper (Arabic), 20 December 2011.

'From Nasser to Tantawi: The Myth of "Sixty Years of Oppression"', Al Akhbar English, 24 October 2011.

Irmak Kaleli, 'Reem Abou-El-Fadl: "AKP'nin Misir'daki Etkisi Dusundugunuzden Daha Az", bianet website (Turkish), 29 September 2011.

'Warning: Lest We Also Lose Greece', Al-Shorouk newspaper (Arabic), 23 October 2011.

'The State of Palestine and the Rights of the People', Al-Shorouk newspaper (Arabic), 20 September 2011.

'Egypt and Turkey vis-a-vis Israel: the Limits of Comparisons between the Two', Al-Shorouk newspaper, 12 September 2011, reprinted by Jadaliyya.

Presentations/Speaking Engagements

10 April 2013: Presentation, 'Early Pan-Arabism in Egypt's July Revolution and the Specifity of Liberation Nationalism,' Annual ASEN (Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism) Conference, London School of Economics

6 December 2012: Lecture, ‘Palestine and Israel through Egyptian Eyes: from Camp David to Tahrir,’ Centre for Global Security and Governance, Aberdeen University.

5 December 2012: Lecture, ‘Cold War Choices and Nation Building in 1950s Turkey and Egypt’, Department of Politics and International Relations Research Seminar, Aberdeen University.

20 November 2012: Presentation, ‘Neutralism Made Positive: Egyptian Anticolonialism on the Road to Bandung,’ Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, United States.

1 June 2012: Presentation on 'Foreign Actors and Culpability: The View from Tahrir Square', Workshop on 'Critical Perspectives on European-MENA Relations in Light of the "Arab Spring",' School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

17 March 2012: Presentation on 'The Road to Jerusalem through Cairo: Anti-Zionism and Palestine in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution,' SOAS Palestine Society Conference on 'Palestine in the Arab Uprisings', School of Oriental African Studies, London.

2 - 3 November 2011: Presentation on 'Transitional Justice and the Egyptian Media: Battling a Lack of Political Will' at UNDP Regional Consultation on Transitional Justice, Cairo.

13 October 2011: Presentation on 'From Tahir to Turkey, Messages of the Popular Will' at Arts and Humanities Discussion Group, St. Anne's College, Oxford.

27 - 29 September 2011: Presentation on 'The Arab Uprisings and their Implications for Turkey,' at Conference on 'New Directions for the Turkish-Greek Engagement in the Middle East and Balkans', organised by South Eastern Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) and Bahcesehir University, Istanbul.

6 - 9 July 2011: Presentation on 'Turkey and the 1957 Syrian Crisis', at Conference on Syrian-Turkish Relations. School of International Relations, St Andrew's University, Scotland.

4 July 2011: Panelist discussing Zindeeq (dir. Michel Khleifi, 2010) with Omar Kholeif and Eckhard Thiemann at the Liverpool Arabic Film Festival (LAFF). This film screening was the launch event of LAFF, organised by FACT, the Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology, Liverpool, in collaboration with the annual Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival.

11 May 2011: Speaker in Parliamentary Panel on 'The Role of the Media in the Arab Spring,' organised at the House of Commons by the National Union of Journalists. Panelists included Jacky Rowland of Al-Jazeera English, Bill Neely, international editor of ITV News, and Jonathan Rugman, foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News.

17 March 2011: Speaker in Panel on the Arab Revolutions organised by Oxford University International Relations MPhil students, held at St Antony's College, Oxford.

16 March 2011: European Council of Foreign Relations podcast on developments in Egypt since the January Revolution.

8 March 2011: Speaker in Panel Discussion on 'The Egyptian Revolution and Democracy', with Dr Karma Nabulsi and Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti, organised by the PPE Society, St Edmund Hall.

January/February and June 2011: Interviewed on the developments during the Egyptian Revolution on BBC News 24; participant in Question Time, BBC Arabic, discussing the contemporary situation (16 June 2011).