Manar Shorbagy

صورة
Organizations: Universities
Professions: Educator, Researcher

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of Political Science

Manar Shorbagy

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


The American University in Cairo

The Arab Center for Development and Future Studies

The American University in Cairo, New Cairo

11835

Cairo

Egypt

manash@aucegypt.edu

Education


PhD, Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 1994.

Certificate in Human Rights Studies, The International Institute for Human Rights Studies, Strasbourg, France, summer 1994.

 

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


American Studies

Human Rights

Public Policy

Egyptian Politics

WORK HISTORY


Senior Consultant on US Affairs, The Arab Center for Development and Future Studies, for, 2006 – present.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, The American University in Cairo, Fall 2000 – present.

Academic Director, American Studies Center and Assistant Professor of Political Science, The American University in Cairo, Jan 2004 – June 2006.

Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, July - Dec. 2003.

Honorary office and memberships


Affiliations to: Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies; Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; The Nasser Military Academy.

(responsibilities: supervision of graduate student theses; writing of policy papers), The Diplomatic Institute 1994 -2009.

Member of societies such as: The African Association of Political Science (AAPS) and The International American Studies Association (IASA).

 

Productions and Works


Has a number of books to her name, including: Obama’s Three Voices, Cairo: Safir, 2009. Who Elects the US President.

Constraints, Complexities and Much More, Cairo: Sherouq International, 2008. Constrained Democracy: The US Presidential Election, Cairo: Dar Masr Al Mahrousa, 2004.

Has a number of papers to her name, including: “The Anti-Globalization Movement”, in: Africa and Globalization, Ed. Hamdy Abdel Rahman,(Cairo: Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 2005).

pp.45-74;“The US and the Iraqi Question: The Gulf States’ Predicament”, in: The Gulf and The Iraqi Question, From the Kuwait Invasion to the Occupation 1990-2003. Ed. Ahmed Ibrahim, Cairo.

Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 2003; “War Decision-Making: the U.S. from Within” in:, The Aggression against Iraq.

Hassan Nafaa and Nadia Mustapha, eds, Cairo: Center for Political Studies, 2003;“American Politics in the Late 1990s.”

Has a number of journal articles to her name, including: “Understanding Kefaya: The New Politics in Egypt”, Arab Studies Quarterly, vol 29, no 1, Winter 2007.

“Official America versus the Other America, Alif, No 25,2005; “Change and Continuity in US Foreign Policy, Al Seyassa Al Dawleyya, 161, July 2005.

Has given over twenty papers at major world conferences, and approximately one hundred published political commentaries in leading Middle East newspapers.

AWARDS


Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, 2003.

American University in Cairo & U.S. Department of State - Grants to conduct research in Washington, D.C., summer 2002; Salzburg Seminar Scholarship, February 2002.