Max Weber Fellow
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
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Dima Alsajdeya earned her PhD in Political Science from Paris-Panthéon Assas University in France. Prior to joining the EUI, she was a grantee of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) Early Career Fellows Program (ECFP) Cycle 11 and a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Beirut. Additionally, she is a research fellow at the Chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World at Collège de France and the Centre Thucydide at the University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas. Dima is also a member of the editorial board for the French journal Confluences Méditerranée.As a Max Weber Fellow, she is working on publishing a book derived from her PhD dissertation, titled “The Egyptian Foreign Policy under Mubarak and the Israeli-Palestinian Question (1981-2011): Beyond Mere Leverage.” This work has received two prestigious awards: the Best Francophone Thesis Award from the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and the Distinction Prize from Paris-Panthéon-Assas University. After publishing several articles on the continuity of Egypt’s foreign policy regarding the Palestinian issue in the postrevolutionary era, Dima is embarking on a new project that explores the political dynamics of Palestinians in Lebanon’s refugee camps, particularly in Ein el-Hilweh. Her current work aims to examine Palestinian power beyond the existing regime of the Palestinian Authority and its institutions located in Palestine. This project focuses on the reconfiguration of Palestinian power in Lebanon, considering both local dynamics and the development of relationships with national and regional actors.