Reem Saad is a social anthropologist with research interests in rural society, historical anthropology, issues of public culture and ethnographic film. She received her D.Phil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford where she was also the Ioma Evans-Pritchard Junior Research Fellow. Her publications include of a monograph entitled “Social History of an Agrarian Reform Community in Egypt”, and the co-edited book Upper Egypt: Identity and Change (with Nicholas Hopkins). She is currently a Research Associate Professor at the Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo.