Ebtisam Aly Hussein
Associate Professor of Political Science
Cairo University
Short vita
Ebtisam Aly Hussein is an ENC academic council member and Associate Professor of Political Science at Cairo University (on full secondment). Since February 2019, she serves as Associate Professor of Middle Eastern studies at Sun Yat-sen University in China. She earned her PhD in 2014 from the Free University of Berlin, where she studied as a scholar in a highly-specialized program titled the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. Her research foci comprise Egyptian politics, Middle Eastern studies, Islamism and repressive practices in the public sphere. She was awarded several international scholarships such as the cultural exchange program in Japan in 2005 and a Fulbright grant to study US politics and thought in 2006.
