EUME
2021/ 2022

Walid El Houri

Protest Movements in the Middle East and North Africa, the Politics of Failure, Crisis, and Geographies of War and Violence

Previous Fellowships: 2013/ 2014

Walid el Houri is a researcher and journalist based in Berlin. He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam and is a former postdoctoral fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien (EUME) and the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin.
He is currently Lead Editor of openDemocracy's North Africa, West Asia section (NAWA) which publishes informed analysis, commentary, and reporting from this region, with a special focus on social and political transformation, freedom of expression, and marginalised communities. 
He is also Academic Partnerships Editor at openDemocracy, where he coordinates and edits a number of partnerships with research institutes and universities on topics related to migration, populism, radical right politics, extremism, and digital rights.
His academic work and publications deal with protest movements most notably in the Middle East and North Africa, the politics of failure, crisis, and geographies of war and violence. He is currently an associated EUME Fellow.

 

2021/22

Protest Movements in the Middle East and North Africa, the Politics of Failure, Crisis, and Geographies of War and Violence

His academic work and publications deal with protest movements most notably in the Middle East and North Africa, the politics of failure, crisis, and geographies of war and violence.

2013/ 2014

What’s an Egyptian: Contested Boundaries under the Muslim Brotherhood

As a EUME Fellow, he will be exploring the production and contestation of meaning and space during and after the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Using notions of hegemony, populism, and appropriation, this project will analyze the political Islamic discourse of the Muslim Brotherhood in relation to state building and its interaction with other components of the Egyptian political spectrum