A small yet significant meeting takes place directly across the street from the Cairo central union office for healthcare professionals. It is a meeting of the strikers’ central committee for the Doctors Syndicate, in which the General Secretary Amr Bakr personally describes the divisions wit..
Gillian Kennedy
Gillian Kennedy is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London. Her PhD examines coercive and consensual counter- hegemonic strategies within the Egyptian Islamist movement from colonial rule up until the dramatic demise Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian regime. She is also a history tutor for Modern European History and Early Modern European Intellectual History in Kings College London, Department of History. Last year she worked as a Press Officer for the Tamer Institute for Community Education in Ramallah, Palestine. Her articles appeared in the Atlantic Community, the Euro-Asia Review, the Montreal Review and the Journal on Islamic Civilization (University of Lahore). She graduated from University College Dublin with a BA (Hon) in History and Politics, and later completed an MA in International Relations at Dublin City University. For more information, please visit www.gillkennedy.com.