مي الخميسي

Mai Alkhamissi is a wannabe social theorist with a background in the anthropology of the state, labour, social and political theory, and affect theory. She received her Master of Arts in Anthropology and Cultural Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London where she wrote her thesis on the union of skilled handicrafts craftsmen in Egypt and both their struggle against, and work with, the state.

She is currently an anthropologist in a four-person team tasked with reforming Cairo University Hospitals (Kasr al-Ainy) where she spends her days informing people that no, actually, she is not a doctor.