REMENA Workshop in Cairo

This Egypt workshop was organized by the Research Ethics in the Middle East and North Africa (REMENA) project at Columbia University. The workshop took place in Cairo, Egypt, on March 3-4, 2023. This endeavor was made possible thanks to the generous funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

The REMENA workshop in Cairo was hosted by the Alternative Policy Solutions, a public policy research project at the American University in Cairo, and the discussion focused on two lines of REMENA’s work: 1) the financing and institutional contexts of social science research in the region, including discussion of private foundations, international development organizations, public and university research programs; and 2) what shapes the questions the REMENA project deem suitable for social science research. In addition, the workshop also hosted a public panel at the AUC Tahrir Cultural Center in order to guarantee that REMENA's work is disseminated as widely as possible.

Researchers and experts that partook in the debates are affiliated with Harvard University, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Gothenburg, University of Sheffield, Rutgers University, George Washington University, J-PAL Middle East and North Africa (The American University in Cairo), Arab Political Science Network, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Portland State University, University of New England in Maine, Colorado State University, University of Toronto, Nebraska Wesleyan University, and Integrated International.