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Suzan Gibril is an F.R.S-F.N.R.S Post-Doctoral Fellow affiliated with OMAM and the CEVIPOL research centre at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Her academic work bridges political science, sociology, and cultural studies with a specialization in Middle Eastern politics, particularly focusing on Egypt's revolutionary period.
Her research interests center on resistance and contentious politics in the Middle East, with particular emphasis on how cultural expression serves as a vehicle for political resistance. She examines the intersection of collective action and power dynamics through unconventional lenses such as music, street art, graffiti, and performance arts. Her work investigates how public spaces become contested terrain during political upheaval, with a special focus on football supporters (Ultras) as political actors in Egypt's revolutionary landscape.
Analysis of her publications reveals a consistent focus on how marginalized groups appropriate cultural forms to challenge authority. Her work demonstrates how football fandom evolved from sports spectatorship to revolutionary mobilization during Egypt's Arab Spring, and how street art served as both documentation and resistance during this period. Her scholarship shows a methodological sophistication that combines field research with theoretical frameworks from social movement studies.
- F.R.S-F.N.R.S Fellowship (National Fund for Scientific Research in Belgium)
Dr. Gibril has contributed significantly to understanding bottom-up political mobilization in the Middle East, particularly through her innovative research on the role of football supporters in Egypt's revolution. Her work has been published in prestigious venues including the European Journal of Turkish Studies and the Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics, where she served as both editor and author. Her research methodology combines extensive fieldwork in Egypt with theoretical frameworks from social movement studies, political sociology, and cultural analysis.
Her research centers on the CEVIPOL research center at ULB, where she investigates how cultural expression serves as political resistance in authoritarian contexts. Her work represents an important interdisciplinary contribution to understanding how everyday cultural practices become political weapons in contexts of repression.
