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A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Author: Marianne Dhenin
Marianne Dhenin (she/her) is a journalist and historian. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Basel, a researcher in the Leibniz Cooperation Project “The Historicity of Democracy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds,” and a member of the academic staff at the Leibniz Institute of European History. Her dissertation explores how disease and public health shaped the social and spatial order of late 19th- and early 20th-century Egyptian cities.
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