Allison McManus
Research Director, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Allison L. McManus is the Research Director at TIMEP. Prior to joining TIMEP, Ms. McManus worked as an independent researcher and writer in both the United States and Morocco, credited for her work on topics of globalization, labor rights and political expression. She has been published in Jadaliyya, Abu Dhabi's The National, Paris' Courrier International, and via the University of California Press. Ms. McManus holds an MA in Global and International Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Last November, Egypt’s Central Bank announced it was taking steps to allow the pound to trade freely on the currency market. The move to float was widely regarded as a necessary, but incredibly [...] More
November has arrived, and with it, the long-anticipated devaluation of the Egyptian pound. Precipitated by weeks of growing panic in the currency market, the measure was an integral reform needed to [...] More
