Professor Mariz Tadros is a professor of politics and development and an IDS Research Fellow specialising in the politics and human development of the Middle East. She is the author of Resistance, Revolt, and Gender Justice in Egypt (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) Syracuse University Press 2016, The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt: Democracy Redefined or Confined? ( 2012) and Copts at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Building an Inclusive Democracy in Contemporary Egypt (2013). Prior to joining IDS, Tadros was an assistant professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo, where she taught development studies for many years at the undergraduate and graduate level. She also served as a journalist for the English-language newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly, in which she published more than 300 articles on civil society, women in Egypt and the Arab world, poverty, and social justice. Since joining IDS, she has led several multidisciplinary, multi-country initiatives, including one on women and politics and another on gender and religion. Tadros has conducted research on persecuted Christian communities in Egypt, Libya, Israel, and Palestine.
