Iwasaki Erina

Prof. Iwasaki Erina is Professor in the Dept. of French Studies, of the Faculty of Foreign Studies of Sophia University in Tokyo. She specializes in Middle East and North African studies, in particular Egyptian and Tunisian socio-economics with a special focus on development and urban-rural relations. She has written extensively on these subjects, both in Japanese and English. Her English publications include Sustainable Water Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt: Dakhla Oasis, Co-Edited with Abdelazim Negm and Salwa Elbeih (Springer, 2020) and Rashda: The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Village, co-authored with Hiroshi Kato (Brill, 2016)