Dr. Catherine Cornet trained as a political scientist and an Arabist in France and the UK. She has 15 years of experience in Middle Eastern affairs and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation and has travelled extensively in the region for EU-funded projects as a researcher and journalist. Since 2001, she has written for the Italian newsmagazine, Internazionale, and is a free-lancer for many French media outlets, including ARTE Television and France 5.
Cornet was a research associate for the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (2016-2017) and communication expert for Mediterranean research projects for the Rome-based Istituto Affari Internazionali (2014-2017, a think tank on International Relations). She also worked for the European Commission in Brussels (1999-2000) as assistant to the Political Officer for the Peace Process in the Middle East and served as coordinator for Europe and the Middle East for the Coalition for an International Criminal Court (New York- Brussels 2000- 2001).
Professor Cornet joined AUR as an Adjunct Professor in 2016 and teaches in the Bachelor鈥檚 program in International Relations and Global Politics and the Master鈥檚 program in Peace Studies. She has also taught at Rome鈥檚 La Sapienza University; Pisa University; and University Naples l鈥橭rientale. Her research focuses on International Relations, Mediterranean Studies and Middle Eastern politics and cultures.
Cornet is currently drafting her book proposal entitled: 鈥淚n Search of an Arab Renaissance: Artists, Patrons and Power in Egypt and the Middle East (2001-2013). 听
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Publications
Catherine Cornet听(2021). 鈥淭he cinema of the young Muslim Brothers: claiming a space in Egyptian pop culture鈥�,听British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies,听DOI:听
Cornet, Catherine (2020). 鈥淒is-orientamento visuale鈥欌�� in Comito, C, and Moresi, S.(eds)听ArapPop, Arte e letteratura in rivola dei paesi arabi.听Roma: Mim茅sis Edizioni.
Cornet, Catherine (2018). 鈥淔rom Egypt to Europe and Back: Egyptian State Patronage听and Circulation of Art Abroad since 1989鈥澨齣n Nadia Maltzahn and Monique Bellan (eds.)听The Art Salon in the Arab Region: Politics of Taste Making,听Beirut: Orient-Institut Beirut
Cornet, Catherine (2017). 鈥淟鈥橝cad茅mie d鈥橢gypte 脿 Rome et les 芦artistes d鈥櫭﹖at听禄 茅gyptiens鈥� in Boissier, A; Gillet, F; Messaoudi, A and Emel Yavuz, P. (ed), Arts visuels en terres d'islams: nouvelles approches, nouveaux enjeux, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la M茅diterran茅e, Aix-en-Provence: REMM.
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Cornet, Catherine (2014). 鈥淐omputer Intimacy: Digitally-Mediated Democratization of Arab Youth Culture鈥� in Herrera, L. (ed), Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East,鈥� New York: Routlege.听
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Cornet, Catherine (2013). 鈥淎rt for Social Change, Supporting Art for community building in Egypt, a comparison鈥� in Voices of Arab Philanthropy and Civic Engagement Series. Cairo: The John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement, American University in Cairo.
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Cornet, Catherine (2012). 鈥淣aked Alia: The Agency of Art through new Media and its new Impact on the Middle East鈥�, in Narrating the Arab Spring. New questions, New modes of resistance and activism, and New politics. Cairo: University of Cairo, CASAW.
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Cornet, Catherine (2011). 鈥淧hysical Presence versus Digital Mobility: How to Handle the Paradox?鈥� in Fund Safar (ed), Exploring Mobility in the Mediterranean. Amman: Safar Fund.
Conference Papers
Cornet, Catherine (2017). 鈥淚n Search of an Arab Renaissance: In what measure did foreign private foundations contribute in defining Cultural policy in Egypt (2001-2013)?鈥� presented at the conference, 鈥淢apping Cultural Policy in the Arab听World,鈥� University of Westminster, London, 21 April 2017.
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Cornet, Catherine (2017). 鈥淎rab artists addressing power between Europe and North Africa,鈥� presented at the conference, 鈥淒ai Colonialismi al 鈥楧iritto di avere diritti鈥�: La sfida del Nord Africa e del Medio Oriente,鈥� University of Naples l鈥橭rientale, Italy, 23-24 March 2017.
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Cornet, Catherine (2016). 鈥淓gyptian soft power and the definition of a modern Egyptian art for foreign eyes,鈥� presented at workshop, 鈥淭he Art Salon in the Middle East: Migration of Institutional Patronage and its Challenges,鈥� University of Catania, Italy,听17-19 March 2016
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Cornet, Catherine (2013). 鈥淭he Arab Renaissance or Nahda, a Zeitgeist travelling through the last century鈥� in workshop - An inquiry into the media of time-specific cultural patterns, Zentrum f眉r interdisziplin盲re Forschung, Bielefeld, Germany, 19 - 21 September 2013.
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Cornet, Catherine (2014). 鈥淎rab Art is the new cool鈥欌�� presented at Brismes Annual meeting. 鈥楾he Middle East in Global Perspective: Interactions Across Time and Space鈥�. Brighton: University of Sussex, 16-18 June 2014.