An Eclectic List of the Best Books of 2015, from Fiction to Non-Fiction
2015 was a great reading year, and since I made a list of my 30 fav books last year I thought I’d do the same again. This year I really felt the benefits of...
Sara Salem is a PhD researcher at the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on historical and institutional perspectives on political economy, and centers specifically on the recent wave of uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa. Her interests include decolonial theory, third world feminism, critical political economy, and theories of post-development. She has lived in Zambia, Egypt, and the Netherlands, and is especially interested in Southern Africa and the Middle East, and formulating new forms of knowledges through decolonizing discourses that were naturalized through colonial processes. She has worked at numerous NGOs in Cairo, mainly on issues of political participation and gender. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in sociology at the American University in Cairo and went on to complete Master’s degrees in Middle East studies and in International Development in the Netherlands.