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Wahba, Dr. Dina

Dina Wahba
Position at ABI:
E-mail:
dina.wahba [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Areas of research:
Affect theory, Sociology of emotions, gender, protest movements, masculinities
Regional focus:
MENA (Middle East & North Africa), esp. Egypt
Professional experience:
2023-2025
Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität, Berlin, Department of History and Cultural Studies
2022-2023
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Salzburg, Austria, Department of Communication Studies
2015-2020
Research Associate, Freie Universität, Berlin, Department of Political Science
Education:
2016-2020
Doctorate in Political Science, Freie Universität, Berlin
2011-2012
M.A. in Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
2008
B.A. in Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University
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Monographs
Wahba, D. (2024). Counter revolutionary Egypt: From the Midan to the neighborhood. Routledge.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Anthologies
Wahba D. (2024) Feeling like a man: the co-construction of masculinities between Europe and the Middle East, Political Geogrpahy (forthcoming).

Wahba, D. (2023). From the Margins of the Field or the Midan, Protest (published online ahead of print 2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/2667372X-bja10033

Wahba, D. (2020). A thug, a revolutionary or both? Negotiating Masculinity in Post-Revo-lutionary Egypt. “Middle East – Topics & Arguments” (META), (14).

Additional Essays in Specialist Journals and Edited Volumes
Wahba, D. (2020, January 23). Urban Rights and Local Politics in Egypt: The Case of the Maspero Triangle. Retrieved from https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/urban-rights-and-local-politics-in-egypt-the-case-of-the-maspero-triangle/

Harders, C.; Wahba, D. (2017): New Neighborhood Power: Informal Popular Committees and Changing Local Governance in Egypt. In: Cambanis, T.; Hanna, M.W. (Hg.): Arab Poli-tics Beyond the Uprisings. Experiments in an Era of Resurgent Authoritarianism. New York: The Century Foundation Press, 400–419.

Wahba, D. (2020). My revolution. In: R. Stephan and M. Charrad, ed., Women Rising: In the Arab Spring and Beyond. New York University Press.

Bens, J.; Diefenbach, A.; John, T.; Kahl, A.; Lehmann, H.; Lüthjohann, M.; Oberkrome, F.; Roth, H.; Scheidecker, G.; Thonhauser, G.; Ural, N. Y.; Wahba, D.; Walter-Jochum, R.; Zik, R. M. (2019): The Politics of Affective Societies. An Interdisciplinary Essay. Bielefeld: Tran-script.

Ayata, B.; Harders, C.; Özkaya D.; Wahba, D. (2019): Interviews as Situated Affective En-counters – A Relational and Processual Approach for Empirical Research on Affect, Emotion and Politics. In: Kahl, A. (Hg.): Analyzing Affective Societies. London; NY: Routledge.

Wahba, D. (2016). Gendering the Egyptian Revolution. In: Sadiqi, F. (Hg.): Women’s Move-ment in Post Arab Spring North Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 61-76.