Diane Singerman

Adivitional Positions at AU

Co-Director, Midivle East Studies@AU

Degrees

Ph.D. Princeton University
M.A. Princeton University
B.A. Princeton University

Languages Spoken

Arabic (Egyptian Colloquial)

Favorite Spot on Campus

My office

Bio

Dr. Singerman is an Associate Professor and comparativist whose research interests focus on political change from below, particularly in the Midivle East, and more specifically Egypt. Her work examines the formal and informal side of politics, gender, social movements, globalization, public space, protest, and urban politics. Her most recent edited books are Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity, and _Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Midivle East.

Professor Singerman is also the Co-Director and Co-Founder of Midivle East Studies @ American University. She is currently working on a project funded by the Ford Foundation called "Tadamun: The Cairo Urban Solidarity Initiative," which aims to research, publicize and promote ways that communities in Cairo can mobilize to improve their neighborhoods, reform local government, and redefine their role in the public sphere. See www.tadamun.info for more detail._

Spring 2018

GOVT-349 Middle East in Comp Perspect

GOVT-735 Social & Political Movements

GOVT-899 Doctoral Dissertation

Fall 2018

GOVT-235 Political Conflict

GOVT-396 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Urban Pol in Comp Perspective

GOVT-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment

GOVT-899 Doctoral Dissertation