9/19/2023 0 Comments Engagex logoKhalil: I think it’s important for some programs that have an element of public engagement, especially for a place like CUNY. Do you think your public writing - that you are known as a public intellectual - helped when you were searching for a position? GC: You’re currently teaching at City College. scholar is not only about getting a job somewhere, and that’s it - it’s about being engaged with the communities that we work with. There is a very high risk of me getting arrested if I go back.īeing a Ph.D. And a few months after that, I wrote something that went viral on social media, and the government released a statement against what I said. after doing my research, I was interrogated in the airport. People are getting interrogated all the time. But then, at a certain moment, due to the high surveillance - many people are already in prison, people who are my friends. Some of those pieces in the years when I was going back and forth. For the last 10 years, I’ve published public writing in Arabic in certain Egyptian and Arabic platforms - some based in Lebanon - that are for the entire Middle Eastern/North African region.Īnd many of my writings are about what’s going on in the lower-middle-class neighborhoods, and also the urban transformations that are being carried out by the government, and the many violations against the residents in terms of forced eviction, securitization, what the police are doing to the residents, how they are threatening them. I’ve been publishing in Arabic since I was doing my M.A. GC: Is it risky for you to investigate that topic? And to discuss it? project: to question how urban geographic transformations make and give possibility to counterinsurgency in a city that witnessed a revolution. in anthropology at the American University in Cairo - it became not a story about gentrification or urban redevelopment, but a story about the complications of the social relations between the police and the neighborhood residents themselves, which became the question of my Ph.D. And while doing my research - I was doing my M.A. My work as an engaged scholar came in the time of the revolution from 2011 to 2013. Khalil: I’m very interested in questions of urban geography, the counterrevolution violence, and what it means to do participatory work with communities to upgrade the areas that are poor in Cairo, where I come from. The Graduate Center: How did you become interested in the topic of your dissertation? She recently spoke to the Graduate Center about her research and the importance of being an engaged scholar. Since 2023, she has taught in City College’s Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies program. Khalil has remained active as a public intellectual, publishing in Arabic on topics related to urban change, violence, and life in Egypt after the 2011 revolution. By 2021, her various writings on Egypt’s geographic transformations, securitization, and their effects on the country’s urban poor had made her too well known, and in danger of arrest. ’23, Anthropology) realized she couldn’t return to her home city again. Student Consumer Information/Right to KnowĪt the end of her last research trip to Cairo, Omnia Khalil (Ph.D.Career Planning and Professional Development.Preparing to Teach as a Doctoral Student.Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Programs.
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