Elsayed is currently a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His doctoral dissertation is an ethnography of the pursuits of stability (istikrar) among post-2013 Egyptians exiles in Istanbul and Amsterdam. He holds an MA in Anthropology from Central European University (CEU). He has worked as a researcher at The Aleppo Project, as part of CEU’s Shattuck Center on Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery. His research interests include politics of exile, state configurations, forced migration, legacies of political violence and the Arab revolutions.