There are nearly 50 academic staff from North Africa and the Middle East currently working at the university with research specialties ranging from art history and classical architecture, to structural biology.
Dr Guy Kahane
Dr Kahane is deputy director and research fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in Oxford’s faculty of philosophy and also deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He specialises in medical ethics, particularly the philosophy and ethics of neuroscience and psychology. In 2009 he was awarded a grant by the Wellcome Trust University Award to undertake a five year research project on ‘Well-being, Consciousness, and Moral Decision-Making’. He is also working on a 3-year project on ‘Intuition and Emotion in Moral Decision-Making: Empirical Research and Normative Implications,’ funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Dr Kahane studied for his BA in Philosophy and Psychology at Tel Aviv University before coming to Oxford to read for the BPhil and then the DPhil in Philosophy.
Nesrine Abdel-Sattar
Nesrine Abdel-Sattar, a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute, is currently preparing her doctoral thesis on information, communication and the social sciences at Mansfield College.
Before coming to Oxford, Nesrine led communication-for-development projects for a number of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in her home country - Egypt - and in the UK. She headed communication campaigns for UNICEF, SureStart, CARE International and recently the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Nesrine has also been the Secretary General of Nahdet El Mahrousa, an Egyptian NGO, since 2006.
Ms Abdel-Sattar grew up in Egypt, and studied for her BA in Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo. She subsequently obtained her MA in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester.
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