About the speaker
Mariz Tadros is an Egyptian political sociologist and research Fellow with the Participation, Power and Social Change team. She is the author of “Democracy redefined or confined?: The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt” (Routledge 2012). She has written extensively on authoritarianism and democratisation in the Middle East and is the editor of “The Pulse of Egypt’s Revolt” (IDS Bulletin 43.1, January 2012).
She also writes on the politics of gender and development (IDS Bulletin 42.1 Rights, Religion and Gender at the Crossroads) and on the religious sectarianism in the Middle East (author of “Cross without Crescent The Challenge of building an inclusive democracy in contemporary Egypt, AUC Press, 2013, Forthcoming). Her contributions have featured in the Guardian, Open Democracy and the Middle East Report. Prior to joining IDS, she worked as an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, and has almost ten years of experience as a journalist working for Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper in Egypt. She obtained her PHD in 2004 from the University of Oxford, UK.
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