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Diane Singerman is an Associate Professor at American University and Co-Director of Tadamun: The Cairo Urban Solidarity Initiative. She holds a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from Princeton University and specializes in Middle Eastern politics with a focus on Egypt.
Education:
- Ph.D., Princeton University
- M.A., Princeton University
- B.A., Princeton University
Her research spans comparative politics, gender dynamics, urban politics, and social movements in the Middle East. She examines informal political structures, youth waithood, marriage economics, and public space transformation, particularly in Cairo. Her work bridges academic scholarship with community-driven urban governance initiatives through projects like Tadamun.
Her publications reveal a consistent focus on urban transformation and political participation in Egypt, with recent work analyzing the 2011 Egyptian Uprising through gender and dignity frameworks. Earlier research established foundational insights into marriage economics and informal political networks in Cairo's urban quarters.
Key Awards:
- Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award (1990)
- Ford Foundation Principal Investigator grant for Cairo urban governance (2011)
- Outstanding Honors Faculty Award (2012)
- Fulbright-Hays and Social Science Research Council fellowships
As Co-Founder of Islamic and Middle East Studies at AU, she has secured significant grants including Ford Foundation and Social Science Research Council funding. Her Tadamun initiative (www.tadamun.co) creates policy tools for community-driven urban development in Cairo, featuring databases, case studies, and multilingual analysis of urban governance.
Tadamun serves as her primary research collective, connecting American University scholars with Cairo-based activists, urban planners, and community organizations to address housing renovation, local government reform, and public space reclamation in Greater Cairo.
