Dr Brecht De Smet

Dr Brecht De Smet

Visiting Fellow

Middle East Centre

Room No
PAN.10.01
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Languages
Dutch, English
Key Expertise
Middle East

About me

Brecht is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Middle East and North Africa Research Group at Ghent University, where in 2012 he completed his PhD supported by the university's Special Research Fund. 

Brecht's research interests entail prefigurative and hegemonic class politics, marginalization, and political economy in Egypt, the MENA region, and beyond. He has published articles, opinion pieces, and two books on the politics of revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt (2016). He is now working on the  'Understanding political change from the Margins: Social and Environmental Justice in Morocco and Tunisia' project sponsored by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research.

Expertise Details

Egypt; Gramsci; revolution; social movements; Tunisia; Morocco; political economy