Ninette Fahmy

Organizations: Universities
Professions: Educator, Researcher

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of Political Science

Ninette Fahmy

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


American University in Cairo

Political Science

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall, Room 2014

Cairo

Egypt

ninette@aucegypt.edu

Education


PhD, Middle East Politics/Egyptian Politics, University of Exeter, 1999.

MPA, American University in Cairo, 1990.

BSc., Business Management, Helwan University, 1985.

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


Egyptian Politics

Human Rights

Political Islam

State-Society Relations

WORK HISTORY


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.