Dr Hazem Kandil was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, which consists of a research grant that will run from 2015 to 2018. Dr Kandil's ground-breaking research on the Egyptian regime and the 2011 uprising were put forward as examples og his outstanding academic contribution by the Leverhulme Trust.
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