Authors

Brecht De Smet and Seppe Malfait

 

Brecht De Smet is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Research Group and a lecturer in Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. His research focuses on collective learning processes and hegemony in social movements; class formation; passive revolution; and independent trade unionism in Egypt. His major publications are A Dialectical Pedagogy of Revolt: Gramsci, Vygotsky, and the Egyptian Revolution (Brill, 2015) and Gramsci on Tahrir: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt (Pluto Press, 2016).

 

Seppe Malfait holds a Master Degree in Arabic and Islamic studies and is a postgraduate in Conflict and Development studies (Ghent University). In both his master’s dissertations he applied Discourse Theory to analyze the hegemonic struggle under Morsi’s presidency. His main research interests are social movements and the construction and dislocation of hegemony and counter-hegemony in Egypt.

ARTICLES BY Brecht De Smet and Seppe Malfait