Amal Adel Abdrabo

Amal Adel Abdrabo is an urban sociologist and visual anthropologist who works at the Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Egypt. She is a former BNGS Fellow at the School of GAPP, The American University in Cairo, Egypt (AUC) where she worked on a project that deals with Palestinian Refugees’ memories (2014-2016). She is also a Visiting Post Doctor Scholar at the Center for African Studies at Basel University, Switzerland. She published and co-authored a lot of academic papers covering the previously mentioned fields of research in both Arabic and English. Her research interests cover development studies; migration studies; urban sociology; and visual anthropology.

Publications

Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics
Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics
Amal Adel Abdrabo, Aly Abdel Razek Galaby. © 2022. 344 pages.
For the first time in modern human history, the response to a global health crisis was required among all countries no matter their wealth, size, or economic status. Every...
Memory, Conflicts, Disasters, and the Geopolitics of the Displaced
Memory, Conflicts, Disasters, and the Geopolitics of the Displaced
Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus, Stevens Aguto Odongoh, Amal Adel Abdrabo. © 2021. 203 pages.
Transnational migration studies tend to conceptualize a clear spatial distinction between refugee camps and their surroundings as “spaces of the displaced” and “spaces of the...
Handbook of Research on Creative Cities and Advanced Models for Knowledge-Based Urban Development
Handbook of Research on Creative Cities and Advanced Models for Knowledge-Based Urban Development
Aly Abdel Razek Galaby, Amal Adel Abdrabo. © 2021. 388 pages.
Discussing global society entails discussing the predominant characteristics of knowledge-based activities in all walks of life. Its main characteristics are based on creativity...
Jaziret Fadel: A Symbolic Topology of a Palestinian Memory
Jaziret Fadel: A Symbolic Topology of a Palestinian Memory
Amal Adel Abdrabo. © 2021. 23 pages.
The plight of refugees fleeing from Palestine in 1948 raises several key questions regarding their historical fragmentation as a nation and their future. From a social...
Forgive but Not Forget: The Social Role of Cinema in Restoring Collective Memory and Rebuilding Belonging
Forgive but Not Forget: The Social Role of Cinema in Restoring Collective Memory and Rebuilding Belonging
Amal Adel Abdrabo. © 2021. 25 pages.
Pierre Nora once said, “We speak so much of memory because there is so little of it left.” Does it mean that we need to document memory so not to lose the truth? What is the...
Crossing Invisible Boundaries and Re-Gaining Home: Between Post-Conflict Uganda-South Sudan Acholi Group and Palestinian Refugees in Egypt
Crossing Invisible Boundaries and Re-Gaining Home: Between Post-Conflict Uganda-South Sudan Acholi Group and Palestinian Refugees in Egypt
Stevens Aguto Odongoh, Amal Adel Abdrabo. © 2021. 19 pages.
The current chapter deals with two different cases of post-war displacement, divided by thousands of miles and located in two different social, cultural, and political contexts....
Displacement and the Creation of In/Visible Boundaries: Memory Beyond Borders and Citizenship
Displacement and the Creation of In/Visible Boundaries: Memory Beyond Borders and Citizenship
Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus, Stevens Aguto Odongoh, Amal Adel Abdrabo. © 2021. 22 pages.
This concluding chapter discusses the reinforcement of the affective capacity building among dispersed transnational communities within the three cases presented earlier in this...
Third-Spaces and the Creation of Socio-Spatial Identity: Fostering a New Model of Creative Cities (Basel, Switzerland)
Third-Spaces and the Creation of Socio-Spatial Identity: Fostering a New Model of Creative Cities (Basel, Switzerland)
Amal Adel Abdrabo. © 2021. 29 pages.
This chapter provides a polite critique of the conventional ways of thinking about space and the intertwined dialectics of the socio-spatial narratives. Conventionally, the...
Institutional Ethnography and Exploring the Social: A Sociological Approach of Actors' Perspectives
Institutional Ethnography and Exploring the Social: A Sociological Approach of Actors' Perspectives
Amal Adel Abdrabo. © 2021. 22 pages.
There is a new trend taking place in Egypt over the last decades that is attempting to establish a new culture of development arguing for a knowledge-based development of...
Egypt's Knowledge-Based Development: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Possibilities
Egypt's Knowledge-Based Development: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Possibilities
Amal Adel Abdrabo. © 2018. 22 pages.
This chapter discusses both the dominant theoretical paradigms that appear within Egypt's ICT policies since the early nineteenth century along with the practical steps of...