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Nicola Pratt is Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, which she joined in 2009 after teaching at the University of East Anglia. Before entering academia, she lived in Egypt, working on human rights and democratisation projects, and speaks Arabic.
Her research and teaching sit at the intersections of Middle East politics and feminist, decolonial and queer international relations theory, with a particular focus on how everyday people shape—and are shaped by—national and international geo/politics.
Nicola has led and participated in several major research projects, including the AHRC-funded Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January 2011 Uprising and its Aftermath (2016–2020) and the British Academy-funded Warwick–Birzeit University partnership Reconceptualising Gender: Transnational Perspectives (2010–2013). Her monograph Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon (2020) won the BISA Susan Strange Prize, and she received a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2013) and the BRISMES Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies (2022).
Her academic work is informed by her long-standing involvement in anti-war and Palestine solidarity activism.