Ninette Fahmy
Who Is She
Personal information
Professor of Political Science
Ninette Fahmy
Contact information / Private
Languages
Arabic
English
Contact information / Work
American University in Cairo
Political Science
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall, Room 2014
Cairo
Egypt
Education
PhD, Middle East Politics/Egyptian Politics, University of Exeter, 1999
MPA, American University in Cairo, 1990.
BSc., Business Management, Helwan University, 1985.
Competences
Egyptian Politics
Human Rights
Political Islam
State-Society Relations
Work history
Jobs:
Professor of Middle East and Comparative Politics, American University in Cairo, 2003-Present.
Acting Dean for the School of Management, 2015.
Productions and works:
"Closing up the Door:” The Egyptian State and the Politico-Economic Entrepreneur: The Case of Nuwwab al-Qurud “Loans MPS,” l'Egypte Contemporaine, January 2007, pp.13-37.
“A Culture of Poverty or the Poverty of a Culture? Informal Settlement and the Debate over State-Society Relationship in Egypt,” Middle East Journal, Vol.58, N0.4, Autumn 2004, pp.597-611.
The Politics of Egypt: State- Society Relationship. Routledge Curzon Press, London, 2002.
Awards
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Award for teaching at the University of the South, Tennessee, USA, 2005-2006
Fulbright Teaching and Research Award, for teaching at the University of Richmond, 2000-2001
