Additional Academic Training

I undertook the following further academic training:

  • 2019 Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute at the Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston, USA
  • Scientific Programming with Python at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute (HPE DSI), University of Houston, USA

Published and Forthcoming Work

Perspectives on Politics
Populist discourse - which tends to benefit anti-systemic parties - has been on the rise in the world’s …

Historical maps contain a wealth of information. They enable us to access rare data and reveal information …

Accepted at Journal of Peace Reseach
Existing datasets of economic sanctions do not tend to take full advantage of government …

Journal of Politics
We introduce the concept of monitoring costs to the study of international affairs: when the agenda of powerful …

Work in Progress: Political Economy of Development

Alt text for my gif I work on the political economy of development focusing on the role of religion, culture, and identity on inequality and public service provision. I employ computational methods of text analysis and GIS to quantify archival data and bring it to life 💥!

watch the GIF above, for an overlay of historical maps of Alexandria in the 19th century on current geographical coordinates. Part of my project mapping the economic history of inequality


Below an overview of some of my ongoing projects:

Data Collection Projects

Data Collection of Egyptian Modern Schools (w/ Mohamed Saleh, LSE) [more info soon 👐!]

Data Collection Project of US Sanctions using Text-Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques

Teaching

Graduate:

  • Python for Social Data Science
    Course Convener
    Department of Politics and International Relations
    University of Oxford
  • Python and Quantitative Text Analysis for Social Scientists
    Course Convener
    Department of Politics and International Relations
    University of Oxford
  • Text as Data: Computational Text Analysis
    Course Convener
    Department of Politics and International Relations
    University of Oxford
    [Syllabus] [Material on Github]
  • Applied Statistics for Political Scientists - Lab Sessions
    Department of Politics and International Relations
    University of Oxford
  • Computational Text Analysis for Political Science
    Department of Political Science
    University of Houston
    [Syllabus]

Undergraduate:

  • 211: Politics of the Middle East
    PPE (Politics, Philosophy, Economics) Degree
    Pembroke, St. Hilda’s, and Somerville Colleges
    University of Oxford
  • 201: Comparative Government
    PPE (Politics, Philosophy, Economics) Degree
    University of Oxford
  • Tutorial: Empirical Political Research in Political Science
    Lecture by: Dr. Sean Carey
    University of Mannheim, Germany

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