Amal Adel Abdrabo

photo: Oumou Traoré

photo: Oumou Traoré

Amal Adel Abdrabo

Amal Adel Abdrabo

Dr. Amal Adel Abdrabo, is an urban sociologist and visual anthropologist who works as an assistant professor at Alexandria University, Egypt. Currently, she holds a position at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar for 9 months (January-September 2023).

She is a former BNGS Fellow at The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt (2015-2017). She was also a Visiting Post Doctor Scholar at the Center for African Studies at Basel University, Switzerland (2017-2019). In 2021 she joined The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) as a postdoctoral researcher for 4 months in Dakar Senegal.

Her research interests cover development studies; migration studies; urban sociology; and visual anthropology. She published and co-authored a lot of academic papers and books in both Arabic and English. Her latest publications: Memory, Conflicts, Disasters, and the Geopolitics of the Displaced (2021); Handbook of Research on Creative Cities and Advanced Models for Knowledge-Based Urban Development (2021); Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics (2022).