The Ghost of Revolutions Past: Nasser, Sissi, & the Muslim Brotherhood
Shades of Egypt’s past are coloring the country’s current political scene. With massive popular backing, on July 3, 2013, the Egyptian army ousted...
Nancy Elshami is a researcher and political commentator, whose work has been featured on ZNet, Jadaliyya, and World Policy Blog. She has experience living and working in the Middle East between Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia. She is a former research analyst at Cornell University’s Institute for Compensation Studies, and a former fellow at the Economic and Business History Research Center at the American University in Cairo. Her interests include political economy, labor rights, and gender politics in the modern Middle East. Nancy is the Perkins Fellow at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, where she is pursuing a Master’s Degree in International & Comparative Labor. Her latest research has been on trade unions in the Arab world. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economic History and Middle Eastern Studies from Barnard College.