Professor Mariz Tadros is a professor of politics and development and an IDS Research Fellow specialising in the politics and human development of the Middle East. Areas of specialisation include democratization in the Middle East, religion and development, the politics of gender and development, and Islamist political movements in the Middle East. She was formerly a professor of political science at the American University in Cairo and worked for almost ten years as a journalist for Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper. Mariz convenes the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), launched in November 2018. She is also the PI of the British Academy initiative on heritage repertoires for sustainable development in Egypt and beyond. Her publications are Copts at the Crossroads The Struggle for Inclusive Democracy in Egypt (2013), The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt: Democracy Redefined or Confined? (2012), and two recent IDS Bulletins: The Pulse of Egypt’s Revolt (January 2012) and Religion, Gender and Rights at the Crossroads (January 2011).