Linda Herrera is a professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership and director of the Global Studies in Education program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her core areas of research as a social anthropologist are global politics and education, youth studies, and critical democracy and global change. Her publications include Stand Up, Sit Down! Culture of Schooling in Egypt (in Arabic), Being Young and Muslim (co-edited with A. Bayat), Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt (co-edited with C.A. Torres), Revolution in the Age of Social Media, Wired Citizenship and “Arab youth: Disruptive generation of the 21st century?” (with A. Mansour). She curates the website for global democracy education, inspired by Egypt’s January 25 Revolution, Democracy Dialogue.
Dina El-Sharnouby is a DRS honors Post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern
and North African Studies at the Free University (FU) in Berlin. She obtained her PhD from the department of Political Science at FU. Before her PhD, she obtained her bachelors and masters in Anthropology and Sociology from the American University in Cairo. She has published in form of journal articles and occasionally writes opinion pieces in English for openDemocracy and in German for Die Zeit. Her research interests are on youth, revolutions, the Middle East and Egypt in specific, political participation, and processes of democratization.
