NPF Cycle Two Fellows and Projects

Shaimaa Magued is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, and a Research Fellow at the Center of Migrations and Refugees Studies, the American University of Cairo (AUC) since 2012. She received her PhD in Political Science and International Relations from France’s l’Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence (SciencesPo Aix) in 2012, her master in Public Policy and Administration from the American University in Cairo (AUC) in 2011, and her master in International Relations from l’Institut d'études politiques de Paris (SciencesPo Paris) in 2009. She was awarded the Fullbright Fellowship “Building Next Scholars’ Generation” and the French Government Scholarship to pursue her masters both at AUC and SciencesPo Paris respectively. Her research interests and publications cover a wide range of topics in political science, and focus particularly on Middle East politics, political Islam, Egyptian foreign policy, Turkish politics and foreign policy, and the Arab uprising.