Annmarie van der Voort

Annmarie van der Voort is a doctoral researcher in the collaborative Ph.D. project ‘Transnational Solidarity, Patronage, and Politicking: Egyptian-Southern African Relations in the Global Cold War’ with SOAS University of London, Birkbeck University of London and Arab and African Research Center. Her research looks at women’s networks of solidarity and the ways in which they interacted with and intercepted different local, regional, and transnational processes. 

Through the locality of Cairo as a Cold War hub, she analyses these complex and often ambiguous transnational projects and their relationship to the surrounding political conditions of the global Cold War. Her research interests are Arab nationalism, pan-Arabist and Afro-Arab politics of solidarity, and the constructs of gender and womanhood in modern nation-making. She is a recipient of the ARHC-CHASE Scholarship.   Before joining SOAS, Annmarie worked in the field of diplomacy and peace mediation, with a particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

Annmarie van der Voort is a CHASE AHRC doctoral candidate at the collaborative PhD project with SOAS University of London, Birkbeck University of London and Arab and African Research Center in Cairo. She is writing her PhD thesis on the African liberation and anticolonial solidarity in Nasser’s Egypt, looking at the role of Egypt in shaping Afro-Arab collaboration and larger African politics in the Cold War. 

• Transnational solidarity
• Pan-Arabism
• Afro-Arab solidarity
• Women's networks
• Global Cold War