Reem Saad Address - The American University in Cairo

CURRICULUM VITAEName:Address:Telephone:E-mail:Reem Saad3 El-Sibak St. Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt50 Bis Rue Charles De GaulleDeuil La Barre, 95170, France+20 2 2635 3666 Home+20 2 2615 1317/1750 Office+20 12 224 67 25 mobilereemsaad@aucegypt.eduEDUCATIONMarch 1994: D.Phil. Social Anthropology, St. Antony's College, Oxford.Thesis Title: "Peasants' perceptions of recent Egyptian history"1987 MA Department of Sociology- Anthropology, American University inCairo.Thesis title: "Social history of an Agrarian Reform Community".1984 BA American University in Cairo (with Highest Honours).Major: Middle East Studies. Minor: Sociology-Anthropology.1979 G.C.E. O Level, British Council, Cairo.School: Ramses College for Girls, Cairo, Egypt.LANGUAGESArabic: Mother tongueEnglish: FluentFrench: Reading knowledgePROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCESeptember 2010- Present. Director, Middle East Studies Center- AmericanUniversity in CairoSeptember 2002- Present- Research Associate Professor. Social ResearchCenter. American University in Cairo.January 1996-August 2002 : Research Assistant Professor. Social ResearchCenter. American University in Cairo1

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August 1993. Tutorial Instructor for Institute for Scholars in InternationalStudies- Europe (ISISE), Oxford.Course: Women in the Middle East.Dec. 1990-August 1991 Anthropologist for the documentary "MarriageEgyptian Style", Under the Sun series, BBC 2, released 1992. (HonorableMention winner in the 1993 Golden Gate Awards Competition, San FranciscoInternational Film Festival).Spring 1991 Part-time instructor, American University in Cairo. Course: Core-Curriculum Seminar (selected texts in humanities and social sciences).1984-87 Graduate Assistant, Department of Sociology/ Anthropology,American University in Cairo.Summer 1986 Desert Development Center, American University in Cairo: Twomonths field researcher in a study entitled: "Community and participation inthe new lands: the Case of South Tahrir".Summer 1983: Shalakany Law Office, Cairo: Translation and secretarial work1979-1989: Organizer and counsellor for summer camps in Alexandria, EgyptYWCA.Experience with children, adolescents, university students and disabledchildren (mentally disabled and deaf-mute).PUBLICATIONSNicholas Hopkins et al. "Participation and Community in the Egyptian NewLands: the Case of South Tahrir"Cairo Papers in Social Science. Spring 1988. Vol.11, No. 1. (With sevenothers) (Monograph).Reem Saad. "Social History of an Agrarian Reform Community" Cairo Papersin Social Science Winter 1988. Vol.11 No.4.(Monograph).Sohair Morsy, Cynthia Nelson, Reem Saad and Hania Sholkamy."Anthropology and the call for indigenization of social science in the ArabWorld" in The Study of the Contemporary Arab World. E.Sullivan and J.Ismael (ed.) University of Alberta Press, 1990.Reem Saad. "Ma'ani al-Ruqi wal Hubut al-Fani fi Turkiya wa Misr". (Meaningsof artistic refinement and degeneration in Turkey and Egypt). Al-Qahira. No.138. May 1994. (in Arabic).Reem Saad. "Situer le village Egyptien: La recherche d'une uniterepresentative" (Locating the Egyptian Village: Peasants' voice and "therepresentative unit"). Egypte/Monde Arabe no. 25- 1er trimestre 1996.3

Reem Saad. "Les deux passes des paysans de Nasser: Memoire politique etvie quotidienne dans un village d'Egypte". (The Two Pasts of Nasser'sPeasants: Political memories and everyday life in an Egyptian village)Peuples Mediterraneens, no. 74-75. janvier-juin 1996.Reem Saad. “’Ceci N’est Pas La Femme Egyptienne!’ L’Egypte entrerepresentations occidentales et discours nationaliste”. Egypte/Monde arabeno. 30-31- 2e et 3e trimestres 1997.Reem Saad. "Shame, Reputation and Egypt's Lovers: A controversy over thenation's image." Visual Anthropology, vol 10, nos 2-4. 1998. {Also appeared inCatalan in: Nueva antropologia de las sociedades mediterraneas. Ed Maria-Angels Roque. Barcelona: Institut Catala de la Mediterrania. 2001}Reem Saad. “Hegemony in the Periphery: Community and exclusion in anUpper Egyptian village.” In Directions of Change in Rural Egypt. NicholasHopkins and Kirsten Westergaard (eds) American University Press.1998.Reem Saad. “The Nation in the Village: War and migration in narratives ofEgyptian peasants”. In Cairo Papers in Social Science- Twenty Years ofDevelopment in Egypt (Part II). Volume 21, Monograph 4, Winter 1998.Reem Saad. “State, Landlord, Parliament and Peasant: the story of the 1992tenancy law in Egypt.” In, Agriculture in Egypt fromPharaonic to ModernTimes, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. 96. Alan Bowman andEugene Rogan (eds). Oxford University Press. pp. 387-404. 1999Reem Saad. “Agriculture and Politics in Contemporary Egypt: the 1992Tenancy Crisis”. Cairo Papers in Social Science: Discourses inContemporary Egypt- Political and Social Issues. Enid Hill (ed). Volume 22,Number 4. Winter 1999.Reem Saad. “ War in the Social Memory of Egyptian Peasants”. In War,Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East. Steven Heydemann (ed).University of California Press. 2000.Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad. “Egypt”. Countries and their Cultures.Volume 2. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember (Eds). NY: Macmillan ReferenceUSA. 2001.Reem Saad. Egyptian Politics and the Tenancy Law. In Counter-Revolution inEgypt’s Countryside: Land and Farmers in the Era of Economic Reform. RayBush (ed). London: Zed Books. 2002.Reem Saad. “The two pasts of Nasser’s peasants: Political memories andeveryday life in an Egyptian village”. In History and the Present ParthaChatterjee and Anjan Ghosh (eds) . New Delhi: Permanent Black Press.2002.4

Reem Saad. “The end of secure tenancy: the meaning of land loss for evictedtenants” (in Arabic). In: Land and Peasant in Egypt. Erian Nassif (ed). ArabResearch Center. 2002. Pamphlet 12.Reem Saad. “People, pollution and the government” (Review article inArabic). Weghaat Nazar. January 2002. No. 36.Reem Saad. “Crafts”. In Upper Egypt: Life along the Nile. Catalogue forExhibition on Upper Egyptian society and culture. Moesgaard Museum.Aarhus. Denmark. Ed. Nicholas Hopkins. 2003.Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad. “Introduction to Upper Egypt”. In NicholasHopkins (ed). Upper Egypt: Life Along the Nile. Moesgaard Museum. Aarhus.Denmark. Ed. Nicholas Hopkins. 2003.Reem Saad. “A Moral Order Reversed? Agricultural land changes hands,again.”. In Politics from above, politics from below : the Middle East in the ageof economic reform / edited by Eberhard Kienle.London : Saqi, 2003.Reem Saad. (2003). “Mud-brick or no mud-brick? Architectural preference intwo Upper Egyptian communities. Jordens Folk. April. Volume 38. No.1.Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad (eds). Upper Egypt: Identity and Change.American University in Cairo Press. 2004.Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad. “The Region of Upper Egypt: Identity andChange”. In Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad (eds). Upper Egypt: Identityand Change. American University in Cairo Press. 2004.Reem Saad. “Social Reproduction and Social Transformation: Trade andExchange Relations in the Rural South”. In: Nicholas Hopkins and ReemSaad (eds). Upper Egypt: Identity and Change. American University in CairoPress. 2004.Reem Saad. “Transforming the meaning and value of traditional crafts inEgypt”. In Cairo Papers In Social Science Special Issue: Cultural Dynamics inContemporary Egypt. Vol. 27. Nos 1&2. 2006.Maha Abdelrahman, Iman Hamdy, Malak Rouchdy and Reem Saad. CairoPapers In Social Science Special Issue: Cultural Dynamics in ContemporaryEgypt. (Editors). Vol. 27. Nos 1&2. 2006 .Reem Saad. "Egyptian Workers in Paris- Economic Migration and the MaleBurden under Transnationalism". Kvinder, Køn & Forskning (Women, Gender& Research) 2-3/2007 "Transnational Experiences: Europe - Middle East".Reem Saad. "Al-Ta’aqlum wal Muqawma wal Fe’l: Al-tanmit wal-tamgid fiDeraset Al-Fallah Al-Misri. (Coping, Resistance and Agency: Stereotyping and5

glorification in the study of Egyptian peasants)". In Intaj al-Ma’rifa an al-Alamal-Arabi (Knowledge Production on the Arab World). Ed. Hoda Elsadda. Cairo:Supreme Council of Culture. 2009AWARDSDean's Academic Honor Roll: 1981, 1982, 1983. American University in Cairo.1988 Peter Lienhardt Memorial Award, University of Oxford.1988-1989 Overseas Research Award, Universities and Colleges in the UKPositions in academic journals:Editorial Board member Cairo Papers in Social Science.Contributing Editor for the Review of African Political EconomyContributing Editor for MERIP (The Middle East Research and InformationProject)Member of the International Advisory Board, Journal of Peasant StudiesMember of the International Advisory Committee of Ethnos (Journal ofAnthropology, National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm). (1998-2002)6