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Anthropology

Soraya Altorki
Title: Professor of Anthropology 
Email: saltorki@aucegypt.edu    
Phone: +20.2.261.51873
Areas of Interest: Gender; anthropology of religion; tourism and heritage studies; Saudi Arabia; Arab world; Muslim world and the Middle East. For more information, click here. 

Arabic Language and Literature

Samia Mehrez 
Title: Director of the Center for Translation Studies 
Email: samehrez@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.56116 / +2.02.261.51312
Areas of Interest: Modern Arabic literature; postcolonial literature; translation studies; gender studies and cultural studies. For more information, click here.

Gender and Women Studies

Hania Sholkamy 
Title: Research Associate Professor at the Social Research Center
Email: hanias@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.51313
Areas of Interest: Health (particularly reproductive health); gender; and population and qualitative methods. For more information, click here. 

Martina Rieker 
Title: Director of Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies 
Email: mrieker@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.51388
Areas of Interest: Gender and the women’s studies after the MDG’s; the girl child: liberal subjectivity revisited; and critical urbanism. For more information, click here. 

History

Amina Elbendary 
Title: Assistant Professor of Arab and Islamic Civilizations
Email: abendary@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51769
Areas of Interest: Social and cultural history of the Arab Middle East; Arab-Islamic historiography; Islamic political thought; medieval and early modern popular culture; and gender history. For more information, click here. 

Hanan Kholoussy 
Title: Assistant Professor 
Email: hkholoussy@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51811
Areas of Interest: Nationalism, marriage, law, and gender. For more information, click here.

Michael Reimer
Title: Associate Professor of history
Email: mjreimer@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51810 
Areas of Interest: Modern Middle Eastern history, i.e. the historiography of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, especially Egyptian views of the Ottoman past; municipal administration, waqf foundations and the dynamics of local politics in Transjordan, as a part of the broader history of cities and towns of the Middle East; the intellectual history of the modern Islamic world, especially Islamic modernism and its critics; and the history of Zionism, especially Zionism's perspective on Jewish relations with the Palestinian Arabs. For more information, click here.

Nelly Hanna 
Title: Distinguished University Professor 
Email: nhanna@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.51772 
Areas of Interest: Ottoman history of the Arab world (1500-1800) with a special focus on the economic, social and cultural aspects of this period. For more information, click here. 

Egyptology

Fayza Haikal 
Title: Professor of Emerita 
Email: fhaikal@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.51841. For more information, click here.

Areas of Interest: Egyptology, Ethno-Egyptology and the impact of Ancient Egypt on today’ s international culture. 

Lisa Sabbahy 
Title: Assistant Professor of Egyptology
Email: lsabbahy@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51839
Areas of Interest: Queens of the Old and Middle Kingdoms; health and disease in ancient and modern Egypt; New Kingdom cemetery material, particularly anthropoid clay coffins; and the position and status of ancient Egyptian women. For more information, click here. 

Mariam Ayad

Title: Associate Professor
Email: m.ayad@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52077
Areas of Interest: Social history and religion in the Third Intermediate and Late Periods; Transmission and layout of Egyptian funerary texts on New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period monuments; the Status and Iconography of women in ancient Egypt; the role of ancient Egyptian women in temple ritual; the significance of the titles Gods Wife of Amun and God's Hand; Egyptian grammar and language (Old Egyptian through Coptic); survivals of ancient Egyptian idioms in modern colloquial Egyptian Arabic; Epigraphy. For more information, click here. 

Salima Ikram 
Title: Professor of Egyptology 
Email: salima@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51840
Areas of Interest: Mummification (human and animal); funerary archaeology; bioarchaeology (particularly archaeozoology); experimental and ethnoarchaeology; and heritage management. For more information, click here.

English and Comparative Literature

Ferial Ghazoul
Title: Professor of the Department of English and Comparative Literature and Chair 
Email: fghazoul@aucegypt.edu    
Phone: +20.2.261.51629
Areas of Interest: Medieval literature (European and Middle Eastern), gender studies; Arabic, African, and French literature and Postcolonial Theory. For more information, click here.

Tahia Abdel Nasser 
Title: Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Email: tgnasser@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51627
Areas of Interest: Postcolonial literature and literary theory; modern Latin American and Arabic literature; world literature and translation studies. For more information, click here. 

Islamic Studies

Mohamed Serag
Title: Professor 
Email: mohserag@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.51740
For more information, click here.

Performing and Visual Arts
Art

Bahia Shehab 

Title: Associate Professor of Professional Practice 
Email: bahia@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.51226 
Areas of Interest: Visual culture of the Arab world; cultural heritage and Fatimid Kufic inscriptions on portable items in the Mediterranean basin and beyond. For more information, click here.

Cinema

Malek Khouri 

Title: Professor and Director of Film Program 
Email: mkhouri@aucegypt.du 
Phone: +20.2.261.51225 
Areas of Interest: Film theory and critical analysis, history, genres, and Arab and Egyptian cinemas. For more information, click here.

Music

John Baboukis 

Title: Assistant Professor and Director of Music Program 
Email: baboukis@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.51247 
Areas of Interest: Music history and performance of medieval and renaissance music. For more information, click here.

Psychology 

Hani Henry 

Title: Associate Professor of Psychology
Email: hhenry@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51836 
Areas of Interest: The empowerment of Egyptian women; the process of loss and mourning; immigration and acculturation; multiculturalism and diversity and models of cultural and racial identity. For more information, click here. 

Mona Amer

Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology 
Email: monaamer@aucegypt.edu   
Phone: +20.2.261.51832
Areas of Interest: Minority mental health, with a specialization in the Arab and Muslim American minorities. For more information, click here. 

Sociology

Helen Rizzo

Title: Associate Professor of Sociology and SOAN Graduate Advisor 
Email: hrizzo@aucegypt.edu       
Phone: +20.2.261.51869 
Areas of Interest: Political sociology (focus on democratization); development in the Middle East and stratification (emphasizing gender and race/ethnicity). For more information, click here.

Education

Malak Zaalouk

Title: Professor of Practice, Associate Dean and Director of the Middle East Institute for Higher Education
Email: mz@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.615.1369 
Areas of Interest:  Political economy of reform and social change; gender; education and development; empowerment; participation and development; liberation education; comparative education; quality education; community participation and education; transitions from school to life.  For more information, click here. 

Economy

Accounting 

Ahmed Abdel Meguid

Title: Assistant Professor 
Email: a_meguid@aucegypt.edu  
Phone: +20.2.261.53288
Areas of Interest: Auditor industry specialization; audit quality and corporate governance. For more information, click here.

Khaled Samaha

Title: Associate Professor
Email: ksamaha@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.2342
Areas of Interest: Harmonization of accounting standards; compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); accounting in developing countries; international accounting education; financial reporting on the Internet; the use of analytical procedures in auditing; and corporate governance and financial reporting. For more information, click here. 

Economics

Hala El Ramly

Title: Associate Professor 
Email: helramly@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53249
Areas of Interest: Macroeconomics and international monetary economics and income convergence among Arab countries. For more information, click here.

Nagla Rizk

Title: Associate Professor
Email: naglarzk@aucegypt.edu   
Phone: +20.2.261.53303
Areas of Interest: Economics of knowledge; information technology and development, with focus on business models in the digital economy; intellectual property and human development. For more information, click here.

Finance

Eskander Tooma

Title: Associate Professor
Email: etooma@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53472
Areas of Interest: Financial economics; volatility dynamics and forecasting in emerging stock markets; asset pricing; portfolio theory and stock market regulations. For more information, click here.

Islam Azzam

Title: Associate Professor
Email: iazzam@aucegypt.edu    
Phone: +20.2.261.53268
Areas of Interest: Finance; corporate finance; investment analysis and international finance. For more information, click here.

Medhat Hassanein

Title: Professor 
Email: medhaths@aucegypt.edu   
Phone:202.261.53272
Areas of Interest: Policy analysis with extensive experience in institutional building; macro-policy analysis; financial economics; corporate finance and international financial management; fiscal and monetary policy; finance and banking; macroeconomic reform, privatization; capital markets and the extra-legal economy in Egypt. For more information,click here.

Management

Ayman Ismail

Title: Abdul Latif Jameel Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship 
Email: aymanism@aucegypt.edu   
Phone: +20.2.261.53279
Areas of Interest: Entrepreneurship. For more information, click here.

Maha ElShinnawy

Title: Professor; Director of Goldman Sachs Women’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership Program (WEL)
Email: mshinnawy@aucegypt.edu   
Phone: +20.2.261.52373
Areas of Interest: Leadership; organizational change; group dynamics; and communication and ethics in organizations. For more information,click here.

Mohga Badran

Title: Professor and Chair of the Department of Management
Email: mabadran@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53279 /+20.2.261.53365
Areas of Interest: Management of change; management of conflict; and learning organizations and human resource management. For more information, click here.

Management of Information Systems

Dina Rateb

Title: Associate Professor and Director of Business Computer Center
Email: dfr@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53283
Areas of Interest: Database management; decision support systems; enterprise resource planning (ERP); ecosystems; accounting information systems; financial information systems; and marketing information systems and systems analysis and design. For more information, click here.

Marketing

Ahmed Tolba

Title: Assistant Professor 
Email: ahmedtolba@aucegypt.edu   
Phone: +20.2.261.53415
Areas of Interest: Strategic brand management; brand equity measurement; models; marketing research; and global branding and nation branding. For more information,click here.

Ibrahim Hegazy

Title: Associate Professor 
Email: hegazy@aucegypt.edu    
Phone: +20.2.261.53274
Areas of Interest: International marketing; marketing management; marketing communications management, marketing research, principles of marketing; and e-marketing and advertising principles. For more information, click here.

Politics
Political Science

Bahgat Korany 

Title: Professor and Director of AUC Forum 
Email: koranyb@aucegypt.edu    
Phone: +20.2.261.51381 
Areas of Interest: Globalization and governance; theories of international order; and the political economy of reform in the Middle East. For more information,click here.

Ibrahim Elnur 

Title: Associate Professor of Political Science
Email: ielnur@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261. 51549 
Areas of Interest: Development and international political economy; population dynamics with emphasis on migration-development nexus; public policy; and economics of education, health, and war and reconstruction. For more information, click here.

Rabab El Mahdi

Title: Associate Professor of Political Science
Email: relmahdi@aucegypt.edu    
Phone: +20.2.261.51899 
Areas of Interest: Comparative political economy of Latin American and the Middle East (state-civil society relations); social movements and resistance; women's movements; and democratic transitions. For more information, click here.

Walid Kazziha 

Title: Professor of Political science
Email: wkazziha@aucegypt.edu    
Phone: +20.2.261.51902 
Areas of Interest: Arab political thought; inter-Arab relations; Egyptian politics; Arab Israeli conflict; and Middle East and the great powers. For more information, click here.

Javid Maswood

Title: Associate Professor of Political Science
Email: Javedmaswood@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.2615.1953
Areas of Interest: International Political Economy, Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Economic Security and Globalization. For more information, click here.

Law

Hani Sayed 

Title: Assistant Professor
Email: hsayed@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.53277
Areas of Interest: Law and economic development; international economic law; and legal and political theory. For more information, click here.

Migration and Refugee Studies

Ibrahim Awad

Title: Professor of Practice/ Director of Center for Migration and Refugees Studies. 
Email: iawad@aucegypt.edu    
Phone: +20.2.261.53326
Areas of Interest: Political economy; employment; international labor migration; human and labor rights; international relations; international organization and regional integration. For more information,click here.

Public Policy

Ghada Barsoum

Title: Associate Professor
Email: gbarsoum@aucegypt.edu
Areas of Interest: Youth inclusive policies; employment and social protection; youth employment programs and evaluation research. For more information, click here. 

Shahjahan Bhuiyan

Title: Associate Professor
Email: sbhuiyan@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53384
Areas of Interest: Governance; public management; public policy; social capital and sustainable development and nonprofit management. For more information, click here.

Sciences and Engineering

Architectural Engineering

Ahmed Sherif

Title: Professor and founding chair of the Department of Architecture
Email: asherif@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52623
Areas of Interest: Architectural design and construction, with emphasis on hospital and public buildings design. For more information, click here.

Khaled Tarabieh

Title: Assistant professor
Email: ktarabieh@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52603
Areas of Interest: Thermal performance of building envelope materials for residential buildings in Egypt; Internet of things (IOT) Prototype development for smart building systems; Development of thermally efficient, light and cost effective building materials for Agile buildings; and Carbon offsets and footprint accounting for educational buildings. For more information, click here.

Magda Mostafa

Title: Associate professor of design and associate chair of the Department of Architecture
Email: m_mostafa@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52618
Areas of Interest: Special needs and inclusive design; and design pedagogy. For more information, click here.

Computer Science and Engineering

Amr El-Kadi 

Title: Professor and Chair
Email: elkadi@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.52988
Areas of Interest: Operating systems; distributed systems; software engineering; computer networks; and computer architecture. For more information, click here.

Mikhail Mikhail 

Title: Professor 
Email: Mikhail@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.52996
Areas of Interest: All aspects of computer communications and networks. For more information, click here.

Construction Engineering

Hani Sewilam 

Title: Professor 
Email: sewilam@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.53071
Areas of Interest: Sustainable development and natural resources management; safe wastewater use in agriculture; artificial intelligence modeling; decision support systems; and integrated water resources management. For more information click here.

Mohamed Naguib Abou Zeid

Title: Professor and Chair 
Email: mnagiba@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52624/+20.2.261.52516
Areas of Interest: Mechanical properties and durability of construction materials; use of industrial by-products such as silica fume, fly ash, and slag in construction; urban development and enhancement of construction aspects and technical education; and vocational training and human resources development aspects. For more information, click here.

Ahmed Ezeldin

Title: Professor and Former Chair of the Department of Construction Engineering
Email: aezeldin@aucegypt.edu   
Phone: +20.2.261.52631
Areas of Interest: Computer software for construction projects delay analysis; life-cycle cost analysis: Computer aided tools; neural networks for construction engineering applications; risk management for  construction projects; dynamic programming for time-cost trade-off problems of project schedules with repetitive sub-projects and quality management system models. For more information, click here.

Electronics and Communications Engineering

Ayman Elezabi

Title: Associate Professor and Chair of Electronics and Engineering
Email: aelezabi@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +2.02.261.53054/+20.2.261.53048
Areas of Interest:  Signal processing for wireless communications; low-complexity receiver algorithms; interference suppression for wireless systems; cognitive radio and smart grids. For more information, click here. 

Hassanein Amer 

Title: Professor 
Email: hamer@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.53042
Areas of Interest: The reliability and testing of digital and mixed-signal circuits; reliability modeling; fault modeling in VLSI; self-checking circuits; analysis of temporary failures; cache memory systems; and networked control systems and wireless communications. For more information, click here

Mohab Anis 

Title: Associate Professor 
Email: manis@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.53058
Areas of Interest: Integrated circuit design and design automation for VLSI systems in the deep submicrometer regime; and Management of Technological Innovation. For more information, click here.

Sherif Abdel Azeem

Title: Professor
Email: shazeem@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52723
Areas of Interest: Optical Character Recognition (OCR), mainly Arabic handwriting recognition. For more information, click here. 

Yehea Ismail

Title: Professor and director of the Nanoelectronics and Devices Center at AUC and Zewail City.
Email: y.ismail@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53056/202.
Areas of Interest: Very large scale integration (vlsi) systems; on-chip inductance in high speed integrated circuits; algorithms for VLSI physical design; temperature-aware computer architecture; arbitrary modeling of TSVS for 3D integrated circuits; circuit design techniques for microscale energy harvesting systems and high performance circuits and interconnect design and modeling. For more information, click here. 

Mathematics and Actuarial Science

Ali Hadi 
Title: Distinguished University Professor 
Email: ahadi@aucegypt.edu  
Phone: +20.2.261.52646
Areas of Interest: Statistics; uncertainty in artificial intelligence; neural and functional networks; and data mining and matrix algebra. For more information, click here. 

Wafik Lotfalla 

Department: Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science 
Title: Associate Professor 
Email: lotfallah@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.52719 
Areas of Interest: Finite model theory; model-theoretic games; theoretical computer science; fuzzy logic, and other applications of logic in decision theory. For more information, click here.

Zeinab Amin

Title: Associate professor and director of the Actuarial Science Program
Email: zeinabha@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52583
Areas of Interest: Quantitative risk assessment. For more information, click here.

Mechanical Engineering

Amal Esawi 

Title: Professor 
Email: a_esawi@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.53102 
Areas of Interest: Carbon nanotube composites; applications of carbon-nanotube materials; clay nanocomposites; nanostructured materials and coatings; material selection/substitution; manufacturing process selection; and cost estimation for early stages of design. For more information, click here.

Hanadi Salem

Title: Professor
Email: hgsalem@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53091  
Areas of Interest: Processing of bulk nanostructured materials (BNSM) via a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches. For more information, click here. 

Maki Habib 

Title: Professor and Director of Robotics, Control and Smart Systems RCSS 
Email: maki@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.53083
Areas of Interest: Intelligent control, biomimetics; autonomous and service robots;human adaptive and friendly mechatronics; distributed teleoperation and collaborative control; intelligent sensors systems, and wireless sensor networks and ambient intelligence; industrial robots and automation; and humanitarian demining. For more information, click here.

Salah El Haggar 

Title: Professor and Chair 
Email: elhaggar@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.53065
Areas of Interest: Cleaner production and industrial ecology; sustainable development; renewable energy applications particularly biomass and bioenergy; and waste management and recycling. For more information, click here.

Petroleum and Energy Engineering

Mohamed Amr Serageddin

Title: Professor and chair of Petroleum and Energy Engineering department 
Email: amrserag@aucegypt.edu  
Phone: +20.2.261.53085 /+20.2.261.5 2680
Areas of Interest: Computational fluid dynamics; renewable energy applications particularly wind and solar; and HVAC and air pollution. For more information, click here. 

Biology

Andreas Kakarougkas

Title: Assistant professor
Email: a.kakarougkas@aucegypt.edu    
Phone: +20.2.261.52898
Areas of Interest: DNA double strand break repair; personalized cancer treatment; and Hepatitis C virus induced DNA damage. For more information, click here.

Arthur Bos

Title: associate professor of marine biology/ecology
Email: arbos@aucegypt.edu  
Phone: +20.2.261.52903
Areas of Interest:  Ecology and species diversity of reef fish; Functioning of marine protected areas; Population ecology of invertebrates; and Seagrass ecology and habitat restoration. For more information, click here.

Asma Amleh

Title: Associate professor
Email: aamleh@aucegypt.edu   
Phone: +20.2.261.52908
Areas of Interest: Defining genetic markers implicated in the development of cancer; exploring new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of cancer; and pursuing questions related to the molecular/cellular/ developmental and  differentiation processes including stem cell research. For more information, click here.

Suher Zada 

Title: Professor 
Email: suzada@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.52909
Areas of Interest: Hepatitis C, liver cancer; hepatocyte culture; bio-nanotechnology as a drug delivery; vaccine development; schistosomiasis; and fascioliasis. For more information, click here.

Walid Fouad

Title: Associate professor
Email: wfouad@aucegypt.edu   
Phone: +20.2.261.52917
Areas of Interest: Integration of genetic transformation technology and functional genomics to study, identify, isolate and engineer key factors for molecular improvement of crops in general and biomass crops in particular; and use of biochemical and molecular biology tools to understand and improve environmental and biotic stress tolerance in plants to enhance their productivity and persistence, resulting in more efficient use of natural resources. For more information, click here.

Chemistry

Hassan Azzazy 

Title: Professor 
Email: hazzazy@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.52559
Areas of Interest: Phage-displayed combinatorial antibody libraries; and biochemical markers for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure. For more information, click here.

Tamer Shoeib 

Title: Associate Professor 
Email: t.shoeib@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.615.2566
Areas of Interest: Analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and molecular structure with the goal of understanding the structure, reactivity, and function of metal-containing bio-molecules, the complexes formed by these interactions and their uses in medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry. For more information, click here.

Nanotechnology 

Hanadi Salem

Title: Professor
Email: hgsalem@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53091  
Areas of Interest: Processing of bulk nanostructured materials (BNSM) via a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches. For more information, click here. 

Physics

Nageh Allam 

Title: Assistant Professor 
Email: nageh.allam@aucegypt.edu 
Phone: +20.2.261.52568
Areas of Interest: Design and assembly of nanostructured materials; solar-fuel generation; solar-driven CO2 reduction; solar cells and heterojunction photovoltaics; plasmonic and photonic nanomaterials; photocatalysis; sensors; fuel cells and electrocatalysis; water treatment and energy efficient desalination; and passivation of metals and semiconductors; bio-compatible materials; and computational materials science. For more information, click here.

Salah Arafa

Title: Professor 
Email: smarafa@aucegypt.du   
Phone: +20.2.261.52574
Areas of Interest: Solid state physics; radiation effects; advanced materials; integrated community development; renewable energy technologies; and Environmental Education. For more information, click here.