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Emad Shahin

 

Emad Shahin

Visiting Associate Professor
[ Curriculum Vitae ]
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617-384-9071
617-495-0438
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Cambridge, MA 02138

Biographical Note:

Emad El-Din Shahin is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University, and an Associate Professor at the Political science Department, the American University in Cairo. He earned his B.A. (1980) and M.A. (1983) from the American University in Cairo and his Ph.D. (1990) from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He has taught at George Washington University, Georgetown University, and Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco. Dr. Shahin teaches a variety of courses in comparative politics, the Middle East, and North Africa. He is the recipient of the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award for the Academic Year 2001-2002, AUC, and has been nominated for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, at Harvard University (May 2007). Dr. Shahin's research focuses on Muslim politics and political developments in the Middle East and North Africa. He is author of Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997), and Through Muslim Eyes: Muhammad Rashid Rida and the West, 1993. He has also published articles and contributed chapters to edited books, including the Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Modern Islamic World, Muslim World, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, and Middle East Insight. Shahin has given public lectures at universities, academic institutions, and professional organizations in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.