Irene Weipert-Fenner is a senior research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). She holds a PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2019 she served as a visiting professor for Middle Eastern Politics at the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. Her research focuses on authoritarian regimes, democratization, and social movements in Egypt and Tunisia.
She coedited Socioeconomic Protests in MENA and Latin America: Egypt and Tunisia in Interregional Comparison (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, together with Jonas Wolff), and Clientelism and Patronage in the Middle East and North Africa: Networks of Dependency (Routledge, 2018, with Laura Ruiz de Elvira and Christoph H. Schwarz). She is author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, including “Unemployed Mobilisation in Times of Democratisation: The Union of Unemployed Graduates in Post-Ben Ali Tunisia,” in The Journal of North African Studies (2020).
