Nadine Abdalla
- Position: Assistant Professor, Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology
- Department: Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology
- Email: [email protected]
Nadine Abdalla is an assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology at The American University in Cairo. In 2015–2016, she was a EUME postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Freie Universität Berlin. She earned her PhD in political science from Sciences Po Grenoble in 2014 with highest honors and committee praise (Très Honorable avec Félicitations du Jury), and her MA in international relations from Sciences Po Paris in 2006. Her achievements have earned her several awards and fellowships, providing opportunities to collaborate with leading academic institutions worldwide.
Abdalla has contributed to Arab research centers such as the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo and the Arab Forum for Alternative Studies in Beirut. She has also held fellowships at European think tanks, research centers and universities, including the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the Lausanne Institute of Political and International Studies at the University of Lausanne, the Study and Research Center for the Arab and Mediterranean World in Geneva and the Center for Economic, Juridical and Social Studies in Cairo.
She has participated in research initiatives of the Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission in Barcelona and is an alumna of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin. Her research has appeared in Mediterranean Politics and The Journal of North African Studies, and has been published by Palgrave and Routledge. Her policy work has been featured by the Middle East Institute in Washington and Singapore, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, the Arab Reform Initiative in Paris, the European Institute of the Mediterranean and the Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission in Barcelona.
Beyond academia, Abdalla writes a weekly column for the Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm. Her expertise has also been highlighted in several articles in other Egyptian newspapers.
Contentious politics and social movements, specifically labor and youth movements
State-society relations
Local politics
Dynamics of bottom-up approaches to democracy within the MENA region, with a particular emphasis on Egypt
Euro-Mediterranean relations, particularly with regard to EU democracy assistance policies
2014: PhD in political science. Sciences-Po, Grenoble Alpes University, France. Grade: Highest Honors (Très Honorable avec Félicitations du Jury)
2006: MA in international relations. Sciences-Po, Paris, France
2005: BA in political science. Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (F.E.P.S), Cairo University, Egypt (French Section)