Program Overview

Located at the heart of the Middle East, the faculty and students engage critically with the region and the representation of its people, cultures, and politics. The program seeks to provide a thorough foundation in the principles of Sociology and Anthropology while also developing critical skills for a wide range of real-world professional situations. It offers a unique opportunity for students to conduct original research amidst an intellectually stimulating environment. Its longstanding tradition of combining scholarship with a commitment to social, economic and political justice makes the program a dynamic environment for learning and research.

The diploma program seeks to provide a thorough foundation in the principles of Sociology and Anthropology while also developing critical skills for a wide range of real-world professional situations.

Program Overview

The graduate program in sociology and anthropology equips students with a thorough grounding in the theory and research methods of both disciplines. Over two years of study, the program offers a unique opportunity for students to conduct original fieldwork-based research amidst an intellectually stimulating environment. Its longstanding tradition of combining scholarship with a commitment to social, economic, and political justice makes the program a dynamic environment for learning and research. 

The program accepts qualified applicants from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds especially those who are talented and interested in acquiring alternative and critical perspectives on society and politics.  

Program Overview

The Diploma in Political Science is designed as a one-year (two semesters) program for students who wish to enhance their professional qualifications or pursue an academic interest in the field of politics. The Diploma Program requires the completion of any six courses chosen from the graduate offerings in Political Science, which include Middle East Politics, International Relations, Development Studies, Political Economy, and Comparative Politics.

Program Overview

The graduate program in Political Science offers advanced study in the discipline of Political Science, with particular emphasis and specializations in three areas; Comparative Politics; International Relations, and; Development Studies. The Political Science Department values its location in the heart of the Middle East and seeks, through its faculty, courses and activities, to link the discipline of political science to the thriving and complex political realities of Cairo, Egypt and the region.  

Program Overview

Our Master of Arts program in comparative and Middle East politics and society provides you with in-depth knowledge of the complexities and challenges of the ever-evolving political and societal dynamics across the Middle East and North Africa region. Offered in cooperation with the Institute of Political Science at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, the program’s standout feature is the integrated semester abroad, enabling you to immerse yourself in the academic and cultural environments of either Tübingen or Cairo. Recognized in Germany, Egypt and the United States, the program opens doors to a multitude of academic and nonacademic pathways, ensuring limitless possibilities for your professional future.

Program Overview

The MA program in Philosophy emphasizes the importance of the study of the history of philosophy as the main avenue for both appreciating the plurality of positions it has given rise to and for the sake of cultivating the methodological versatility and patience such pluralism calls for in the 21^st Century. 

Accordingly, our program historically gives students a unique opportunity to explore the common roots, interconnections and conceptual boundaries between Islamic and Western schools of philosophical speculation, while at the same time systematically fostering the dialogue between the logical rigor and scientific naturalism advocated by the tradition of Analytic Philosophy, on the one hand, and the depth of systematic accounts of human experience offered in the German Idealist, Pragmatist and Phenomenological traditions, on the other hand.

Program Overview

The graduate diploma in international and comparative Education is offered by the Department of Applied Linguistics and Educational Studies. This Diploma is designed as a one-year (two semesters) program for students who wish to enhance their qualifications or pursue an academic interest in the field of education.

Program Overview

Hone your analytical skills through examining the social, political and economic implications of education and the mutual impact between society and educational systems. Our graduates join a cadre of global educational leaders and policy analysts serving schools, universities and educational systems in need of significant change. To build the professional skills necessary in a global context of reform, you will be exposed to a variety of courses, including new courses on early childhood policy; science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and youth and human development policy.

Concentrations

• International Education Development and Policy

• Teaching and Learning

Program Overview

The Graduate Diploma in Inclusive Education is offered by the Departments of Psychology and the Department of Applied Linguistics and Educational Studies. This diploma is designed as a one-year (two-semester) program. This proposed graduate diploma focuses on inclusive education, which is about how schools, classrooms, programs, and activities are developed and designed, so that all students of different abilities and backgrounds can effectively learn and participate together. As indicated by the scientific literature, students with learning difficulties and other challenges should not be segregated, stigmatized, or excluded from educational opportunities, and students who are gifted and talented should not have their potential constrained by the academic system.

Program Overview 

The graduate program in Gender and Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary critical social theory program. It provides students with a solid grounding in how relations of gender are embedded in social, economic and political formations with a particular focus on the Middle East/ North Africa and the comparative global south.