Dr. Dahlia SaadEl-Din
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Introduction | GeoKmt | Strategic Analysis & Historical Geopolitics of the Nile Basin. Dahlia (Dalia) Saad El-Din, PhD in Philosophy of History – African Studies, Modern and Contemporary History, Cairo University. A researcher specializing in the historical geopolitics of the Nile Basin and the Horn of Africa, with research interests in political authority and nationalities in Ethiopia, resource conflicts, regional security, military logistics, and crisis management. |
| Favorite movies | أم رتيبة |
| Favorite music | Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 |
| Favorite books | History, Philosophy & Political Thought: 1. Ethiopia: Expansion and State-Building, by Dahlia Saad El-Din, General Egyptian Book Organization, Cairo, Egypt. A study of Ethiopian territorial expansion and the development of state-building, with particular focus on Emperor Menelik II’s expansionist project and the formation of the modern Ethiopian state. 2. The River Nile in the Age of the British: Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power, by Terje Tvedt, Translated by Saad al-Tawil— National Centre for Translation, Egypt. Historical editing by Dahlia Saad El-Din. A study of the political history and political ecology of the Nile, examining the relationship between water, economic power, colonialism, and the production of influence in the Nile Basin. 3. The Philosophy of History, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. One of the foundational works for understanding history as a dialectical process connected to the state, freedom, and the development of historical consciousness. 4. Capital: Critique of Political Economy, by Karl Marx. A major work for understanding the relationship between economics, power, and society, as well as the material structures underlying historical conflicts and social transformations. 5. The German Ideology, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A foundational work for the study of history, society, and ideology, particularly the relationship between ideas and the material and social structures of human life. 6. Prison Notebooks, by Antonio Gramsci. A key work for understanding hegemony, cultural power, the production of political consent, and the roles of the state and civil society in shaping political consciousness. 7. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, by Michel Foucault. One of Foucault’s most influential works on power, discipline, institutions, and the mechanisms through which social control is produced and exercised. 8. The History of Sexuality, by Michel Foucault. A critical study of the relationship between know |