Mayada Madbouly

Mayada MADBOULY is PhD candidate in Labex « Les passés dans le présent », ISP in Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense in France. She is interested in migration, social movements, collective memory and collective action led by ethnic minorities in urban spaces. Her master degree was in Comparative Political Sociology at the same university where she submitted a thesis on Nubian youthful identity: "Les Nubiens du Caire au carrefour de l'identité : une (en)quête de la nubianité et reformulation de l'égyptianité". She obtained her BA from the department of political science in the faculty of economic and political sciences, Cairo University where she submitted a thesis on how Egyptian movies constructed a social image about slums inhabitants in Egypt.