When I started working on my dissertation in 2011-2012, I was astonished to find out how little scholarship we had on contemporary Alexandria. This is not to say that nothing was being published, but most of the existing scholarship revolved around the issues of heri..
Youssef El Chazli
Youssef El Chazli recently submitted his dissertation in political science entitled, “Becoming a revolutionary in Alexandria”. He is a doctoral student at the universities of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Paris 1 Sorbonne (Paris) and has taught at the University of Lausanne and at Sciences Po Paris (Menton undergraduate College). In 2014-2015, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University (New York). He is also an associate researcher with the CEDEJ (Cairo) and the CRAPUL (Lausanne).