Haneen Zeglam

Biography:

Haneen is a first-year PhD student at the Department of Political Science, supervised by Prof Zeynep Bulutgil and Dr Samer Anabtawi. Her research focuses on political cleavages, religious and class-based political mobilisation and the evolution of secularism in primarily post-colonial contexts. 
 
Haneen is the recipient of UCL’s Research Excellence Scholarship. She holds an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Human, Social and Political Science from the University of Cambridge. Her MPhil thesis on the formation of secular political parties won the University of Oxford’s Zander Prize in 2022. 
 
Prior to joining UCL, she worked at the Middle East Institute’s North Africa and Sahel Program where she remains a non-resident scholar, working on a number of political and social trends across the Maghreb and the Sahel. Some of her most recent work has been on the state of economic integration in North Africa and the environmental activism across the region in the wake of COP27 and COP28. 

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Research groups:

Conflict & Change 
Comparative Political Economy and Behaviour  

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Research interests:

Political sociology, contentious politics, class-based politics, authoritarianism, state-society relations, political Islam, secularism.