Institute of Development Studies

Biography

Mariz Tadros is a fellow with the Participation team specialising in the politics and human development of the Middle East. Areas of specialisation include democratisation, Islamist politics, gender, sectarianism, human security and religion and development. Prior to joining IDS Mariz was an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, where she taught development studies for many years at an undergraduate and graduate level. For almost ten years, Mariz worked as a journalist for the English language newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly where she published over 300 articles on a variety of subjects including civil society, women in Egypt and the Arab region, poverty and social justice. She has extensive experience as a development practitioner and worked as a consultant for many international organisations including the Ford Foundation. Mariz obtained her doctorate from Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford in 2004.

Since joining IDS, she has been involved in leading several multidisciplinary, multi-country initiatives including one on women and politics and one on gender and religion.

 

Selected Projects and Recent Work

• Influencing Policies to Support the Empowerment of Women and Girls
• The Governance of Service Delivery

Thematic Expertise

Citizenship; Development (General); Gender; Participation; Politics and Power; Rights.

Geographic Expertise

Middle East and North Africa; Egypt; Jordan; Yemen.

Selected Publications »»

• Tadros, M. (forthcoming) Islamist Politics in the Middle East: The Muslim Brotherhood, Oxford: Routledge Press
• Tadros, M. (2011) 'The Arab Uprising: Why no one saw them coming'
• Tadros, M. (2011) 'No Real Freedom without Dismantling the Secret Political Police'
• Tadros, M. (2011) 'The Securitisation of Civil Society' 11.1:79 - 103, Routledge
• Tadros, M. (2011) 'Faith-based Service Delivery and Gender Conundrums' , UNRISD
• Tadros, M. (2011) 'A State of Sectarian Denial'
• Tadros, M. (2011) 'Behind Egypt's Deep Red Lines'
• Tadros, M. (2010) 'Religion, Rights and Gender at the Crossroads', IDS Bulletin 42.1, Brighton: IDS
• Tadros, M. and Costa, A. (2010) 'Quotas: Add Women and Stir?', IDS Bulletin 41.5, Brighton: IDS
• Tadros, M. (2010) 'Scapepigging: H1N1' in Dry, S. and Leach, M. (eds), Epidemics: Science, Governance and Social Justice, Earthscan
• Tadros, M. (2010) 'Advocacy in the Age of Authoritarianism: Adjustments of all Sorts in Egypt', IDS Working Paper 337, Brighton: IDS
• Hossain, N., Fillaili, R., Lubaale, G., Mulumbi.M., Rashid, M. and Tadros, M. (2010) 'The Social Impacts of Crisis: Findings from Community-Level Research in Five Developing Countries'
• Tadros, M. (2010) 'Between the Elusive and the Illusionary: Donors Empowerment Agendas in the Middle East in Perspective', Journal of Comparative Studies of Asia,Africa and the Middle East 30.2
• Tadros, M. (2009) 'The Non-Muslim Other: Gender and Contestation of Hierarchy of Rights', Hawwa 7.2:111 - 143, BRILL
• Tadros, M. (2009) 'Vicissitudes in the Coptic Church-State in Egypt', International Journal of Middle East Studies 41.2:269-287