Academics

Prof. Hala Mohamed Sakr is a Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics & Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University, since 2015. She was the Academic Coordinator of the English Section (2015-2018) and a member of the Steering Committee of Applying and Supervising Credit Hours System at (FEPS). She is currently a member of the Technical Committee for Health Economics Professional Masters.

She represents (FEPS) in the Economic Committee in EU Tuning Africa Initiative Project (under supervision of Duesto University, Spain, African Commission, and the European Union).

Hala is a member of the Travel and Tourism Sub– Council in the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council (ENCC), since 2013. She provided economic consultancy in the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) in 2016. She was also a Monitoring and Evaluation expert in the Health Pillar in Egypt’s 2030 Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS), Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform (MPMAR), 2017.

Throughout her academic life, she published several papers in foreign direct investment, trade in services, labor migration, local economic development, inclusive growth, tourism sector, health sector liberalization, and knowledge economy.

Hala’s teaching experience includes Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Economic Development, International Economics, Managerial Economics and Knowledge Economy.

Hala is currently the Dean of the School of Economics and Politics at NGU.

Prof. Abustait received B.A Degree in Economics from Cairo University, He received two master’s degrees in finance, University Texas A&M, in 1982 received another master’s in political economy, University of Texas. in 1986 he was awarded a Ph.D. In Economics and the International Finance University of Texas USA.
Prof. Abustait has a mixture of practical and academic experience enabled him to hold several important advisory and academics posts. He holds several advisory posts at various international organizations such as United States Agency for Development USAID, he worked for United Nations Development and Population UNFPA, besides Economic advisor to Ministry of Planning in Saudi Arabia and Economic Advisor to the Chairman of Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu. He worked as Economic Advisor for two central Banks in Two Arab Gulf Countries.
He received his professorship in 2000 and he has more than 45 articles published in well-known journals in English besides several books in different fields in economics.
His area of interesting research is macroeconomic policies, financial stability, and politics.

Prof. Awad graduated with honors in 1976 from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. In 1982, he got a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the same school with an “Excellent”. Then he moved to the United States, where he got another master’s degree in 1986, followed by a doctorate degree in 1990 from the Department of Government and Politics of the University of Maryland, both with an “Excellent”.

Prof. Awad has very long teaching experience at Cairo University. In addition, he taught at the University of Maryland, King Saud University, Alexandria University, Misr University for Sciences and Technology, 6 October University, the Arab Institute for Research and Studies, and the Arab Academy for Sciences, Technology, and Maritime Transportation.

Prof. Awad has an interest in comparative political systems in general and in area studies in particular in both Asia and Latin America. He has publications in the field both in Arabic and English, as well as a number of translations. Also, he supervised tens of master’s theses and doctoral dissertations and participated as head and as an examiner in committee discussions for a quite similar number of theses and dissertations within and outside Egypt.

Prof. Ola Al Sayed is a Professor of Financial Economics. Her professional, academic, consultancy and administrative experience has been fulfilling as she joined several universities inside Egypt, (public and private), and outside Egypt where she served as Visiting Professor at the Institute for Islamic World Studies, Zayed University, UAE and a full-time Associate Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman. She formerly served as Vice Dean for Education and Student Affairs at the School of Business, Ahram Canadian University.

Regarding academic experience, she has taught several courses in both Economics and Finance majors at the graduate and undergraduate levels. These courses include Principles of Finance, Investment, Money and Banking, Financial Economics, Islamic Finance, Islamic Banking, Portfolio Management, Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Risk Management, Public Finance, Investments, Securities Analysis, Financial Institutions, Financial Markets, Intermediate Microeconomics, Managerial Economics, Economic Policies in addition to Principles of Microeconomics and Principles of Macroeconomics.

She published several research articles in reputable local and international journals, in the area of Economics, Banking Sector, Islamic Finance, Digitalization and Public Finance. She supervised several Master and Ph.D. dissertations and participated in both national and international conferences.

She is currently full-time Professor and assessment lead of exams committee at the School of Economics and Politics (SOEP) at Newgiza University, Egypt.

Dr. Doaa Wafik earned her bachelor’s degree in Economics and her Masters and Ph.d. degrees in Economics from Ain Shams University. She accumulated more than 25 years of academic experience in different universities in both the public and private sectors in Egypt and UAE. She taught both basic and advanced courses in many fields in Economics and Management Sciences. Dr. Doaa supervised Ph.D. and M.Sc. thesis and she published more than 15 articles in International/National Journals and conferences.

In addition, she accumulated more than ten years’ experience in the accreditation field in Egypt. Dr. Doaa has experience in the academic positions for more than 10 years, she has been the head of the Economics department between 2007 and 2012 at MTI University, Egypt and a Vicece-dean at the School of Business and Economics between 2016 and 2018 at BUC, Egypt. She is currently an Associate Professor at NGU, Egypt.

Dr. Mostafa Yousri is a part-time Associate Professor of Mathematics and Risk Management. He holds a diploma in Business from Redbridge College, London, as well as a Ph.D. in Enterprise Risk Management from Cairo University. Dr. Mostafa teaches Business Mathematics, Statistics, and Risk Management at the School of Business and Finance, School of Economics and Politics at NGU, Faculty of Commerce-English Section (FCES) and Georgia State University-Cairo University Joint Program (GSUCU), Cairo University

Dr. Ebtisam Hussein is an associate professor of political science at New Giza University, an academic council member of the European Neighborhood Council (ENC), and an associate professor at Cairo University (on full secondment). She served as Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies (Feb 2019–Jan 2022) at Sun Yat-sen University, one of China’s top ten universities.

She earned her PhD in 2014 from the Free University of Berlin, where she studied in a highly specialized and competitive program titled the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies. Her research foci comprise Egyptian politics, Islamism, repressive practices in the public sphere, and post-2011 MENA political landscapes. In addition to her published, peer-reviewed research, she recently contributed analysis papers, which are available on the ENC website.

During her career path, 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. She recently visited the department of Social Sciences at Fribourg University, for a one-month research stay, funded by the SNSF, where she engaged in a joint research project with Prof. Ansgar Jödicke, from the Religious Studies Department, on Islamists in the public sphere.

Dr. Rawia Tawfik is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, and a part-time associate professor at the School of Economics and Politics (SOEP) at NGU. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Politics from the University of Oxford. She was a researcher at the German Development Institute/ Duetsches Institute für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (now the German Institute of Development and Sustainability-IDOS) in Bonn and a visiting research fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA). She is an advisory board member of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, and an editorial board member of African Studies Review, the flagship journal of the US-based African Studies Association. Her research interests include African development, regional integration, and resource-based conflicts, especially conflicts over transboundary rivers in Africa, and the Nile basin in particular, comparative politics especially areas of governance and democratization, and the foreign policy of regional powers in Africa and the Middle East. Her work on these issues appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, including African Studies, African Studies Review, Water Alternatives, Water Policy, Water International and International Negotiation.

Associate Professor at CU (Cairo university) faculty of economics and political science, economics department, part-time at Newgiza university (NGU) School of economics and politics.
Area of interest in research: economic development, institutional economics, macroeconomics.
Previous experience: Participation in many local and international conferences by organizing and presenting research papers, Participation with local and international bodies in preparing many research projects and working papers, publishing much scientific research in local and
international journals.

Dr. Heba Mohamed Zahra is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. She is also an Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Economics and Politics at Newgiza University.

Dr. Heba received her MA in Comparative Politics from American University in Washington D.C. – the U.S.A. She completed her PhD in Political Science at Cairo University. Her research interests include Comparative Politics, Research Methodology, civil-military relations, and terrorism studies. She has published several research papers in prestigious academic journals. In addition, she was a member of the Quality Assurance and Accreditation team of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University.

Dr. Rasha Mahmoud El-Baz obtained her BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Cairo University. Her research is focused on the Middle East, Turkish-Israeli Relations, Conflict Resolution and International Arbitration, and Security challenges in Central Asia.

She currently serves as a Political Science Lecturer at the School of Economics and Politics at Newgiza University, and had previously served as a Lecturer at 6th of October University and at MUST University.

In 2006, she worked as Head of Research Unit at the Malaysian Program at Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. In 2007, she served as the Chief Editor for Nile Centre for Strategic Research (Egypt Branch).

Additionally, she has more than 10 years of professional experience in the field of development with the UNDP where she had assumed several roles including project manager of the women empowerment initiative of the UNDP Poverty Eradication Programme.

Dr. Maie Ashraf is a Lecturer at the School of Economics and Politics at Newgiza University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Economics department of the Faculty of African Studies – Cairo University. Aside from lecturing, she has supervised and conducted economic research for the ICT industry in Egypt. She taught at Faculty of Economics and Political Science – Cairo University different courses for both undergraduates and students enrolled in the Master’s program of Law and Economics for the Arab Region (MLEA) in her area of specialization. She has published many research papers in the economics of telecommunications and economic development.

Dr. Marwa is a Lecturer of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics in 2016, from the faculty of Economics and Political science, Cairo University, and from the institute of law and economics in Hamburg, Germany. She obtained her MSc. in 2011 in Participatory planning from Cairo University. Her research interests include international economics, institutional economics, as well as topics in the field of law and economics. She is currently a part-time lecturer at the School of Economics and Politics at Newgiza University.

Dr. Ghada Moussa holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sc., Cairo University, American University, GAP, Future University, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transportation. She is currently a lecturer at Newgiza University.

Dr. Ghada Moussa published research papers in the fields of Political Economy, Governance Reforms, Transition to Democratic Governance, Culture of Resistance, Dynamics of Corruption, Gender Policy Reforms, Public Sector Reform (interface between political governance and public governance), Political Parties Reform.

On the professional level, she worked as the Director of the Governance Center, Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform 2008-2018. She also held a position of Secretary-General of the “Transparency and Integrity Committee” 2008-2011. She was also the National Focal Point to the Public Governance Committee- OECD 2012-2018, and the former Member of Technical Committee of the National Coordinative Anti-Corruption Committee (NCCC) and contributed to the Egyptian National Anti-Corruption Strategy 2014-2018. She is also an assigned Member of the National Council for Governance established for the African Governance Peer Review Mechanism from 2017 until now.

Dr. Hoda Shaltout is currently a Political Science Lecturer at Newgiza University and has been a Lecturer and an Assistant Lecturer at MUST University since 2014.
She acquired both her Ph.D. and MA in Political Science from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University in 2018 and 2012 respectively, with a specialization in International Relations. She has more than 10 years of professional experience in the field of development with the EU and UN where she has assumed a number of roles including the EU Children at Risk Programme Director Technical Assistant and Visibility Coordinator, as well as the EU Family and Child Rights Senior Awareness Raising Officer.

Dr. Huda Abdel Raouf is currently a Political Science Lecturer at Newgiza University. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University (grade excellent), with a specialization in International Relations.

Her M.A. in political science (2012) is in the Israeli Egyptian relations after 2011.

She is a Member of the Political Science Committee at the Supreme Culture Council, since 2017.

She has more than 10 years of professional experience in the field of public policy and decision making in governmental and bureaucratic institutions, as she worked for the Information and Decision Support Center – The Egyptian Cabinet Think Tank. She also worked for the Egyptian Cabinet of Ministers, in the technical office of the Prime minister and the General Secretary as well.

Her research interests include international & regional affairs, regional powers and regional systems, Egyptian foreign policy, and Iranian affairs.

Dr. Fatma R. Farag is an Assistant Professor of Socio-Computing at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She graduated from the same faculty in 1999 with a Bachelor of Statistics – Minor: Socio-Computing. She received her master’s degree in Socio-Computing in 2008 and her Ph.D. in 2019. She joined the 9-Month Professional Diploma at the Information Technology Institute (ITI), Egyptian Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center in 2000.

Her research interests include Social Simulation and Modeling, Agent-based Modeling, Complex Adaptive Systems, Data Science, Opinion Dynamics, and Gender Studies. Fatma works as the Academic Coordinator for the undergraduate credit hours system at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science. She also works as a member of the Executive Board Committee of the Anti-Violence Against Woman Unit at Cairo University. Fatma is currently a part-time Lecturer at Newgiza University.

Dr. Heba El Deeb is a lecturer of Statistics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She received her MSc. in Operation Research in 2012, and Ph.D. in Reliability and Operation Research from the same faculty in 2019. Her teaching experience includes graduates’ and undergraduates’ statistics courses at Cairo University.
Her research interests are in Operation Research, Reliability, Stochastic Processes, Simulation, and Modeling.

Dr. Ahmed Megahed is a former Egyptian diplomat. He is currently a lecturer of Political sciences at the School of Economics and Politics, Newgiza University, and a visiting Professor of Practice at Université Clermont Auvergne, France, and Qatar University.

He has a Ph.D. degree in Political Sciences from Université Clermont Auvergne, France (2021). He graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in France, where he followed ENA’s Cycle International Long and earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration (2001-2003). He also studied at Malta University and obtained a Master’s degree in Diplomacy and International Relations (1997).

Dr. Megahed joined the Egyptian Foreign Service in 1995 and graduated from the Institute of diplomatic studies in January 1996. He served at Egypt’s Embassies and missions in Manila, Djibouti, London, UNESCO and was the deputy Ambassador of Egypt and Chargé d’affaires a. i. in Paris. He also worked at the Minister’s cabinet as well as in various departments and units of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2018, he retired as Minister plenipotentiary and opted for a career-shift to academia.

His area of interest and expertise includes diplomatic and consular systems, foreign policy analysis, theories of international relations, international negotiations, political theory, and public opinion.

Dr. Radwa A. Abdelghaffar is a lecturer of economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University (CU). She obtained her MSc. and Ph.D. in economics in 2015 and 2023 respectively, at FEPS, CU. She is the academic seminar coordinator at FEPS, CU.

Her research interests include digital economy, financial economics, econometrics, and quantitative methods. She is currently a part-time lecturer and scientific seminar coordinator at the School of Economics and Politics at Newgiza University.

Dr. Heba Ashraf graduated and got both Master’s and Ph.D from faculty of economics and political sciences, Cairo university. Dr. Heba worked at the Central Bank of Egypt till 2011.  She worked as a part time lecturer of economics in Cairo University since 2017.  Her teaching experience includes undergraduate and post graduate courses as well.

Her fields of interest in research and publications are macroeconomics, money and banking and Fintech. Dr. Heba also has technical certificates in Fintech and digital transformation.

Nouran has worked as a Teaching Assistant of Statistics at the Faculty of Management Sciences, October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA), after obtaining her B.Sc. in Statistics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University in 2019. She acquired her MSc. in Statistics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University in 2022. 

Her research interests include Regression Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Categorical Data Analysis, Multivariate Data Analysis, Econometrics, Operation Researches, Non-Parametric Statistics, Missing Data Analysis, and Data Science. Nouran has been working with several programming skills, such as STATA, R, and Python. Nouran is currently a full-time assistant lecturer at NGU.

Yosra earned her bachelor’s degree in economics major from Modern Science and Arts University (MSA) in 2015 with highest honors and was top of her class.

She worked as TA in MSA since 2015 and completed her master’s degree titled “Investigating the Relationship between Fin-tech and Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries” in 2021.

Her teaching experience include Macroeconomics, Microeconomics and Money and Banking. Yosra is currently a full-time Assistant Lecturer at NGU.

Wael has worked as an Assistant Lecturer of Statistics and Mathematics at Ahram Canadian University’s School of Business Administration after receiving his MSc in informatics from Jonkoping International Business School, Jonkoping University in Sweden in 2019.
He has nine years of administrative and industry experience. Prior to joining ACU, he worked as a Project Manager at Vätterhem company at the Sustainability Department and as a logistics administrator at IKEA DC in Sweden.
After graduating from Mansoura University’s Faculty of Science with a bachelor’s degree in statistics and computer sciences at Mathematics department, he began his career as a teaching assistant in Mathematics in Sultanate of Oman.
His research interests include data analysis, data science, artificial intelligence, and learning management systems. Wael is now pursuing his PhD at Cairo University’s Faculty of Graduate Studies for Statistical Research while working as a full-time assistant lecturer at NGU.

Mohamed holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University in 2017. Then, he obtained a MA in International Relations from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Webster University in Saint Louis, Missouri. His master’s thesis is titled “The Saudi Intervention in Yemen: A Regional Rivalry or Geopolitical Necessity.” At present, he is a Political Science Ph.D. candidate at Cairo University. He is currently a full-time Assistant Lecturer of Political Science at Newgiza University.

Prior to joining NGU, Mohamed worked as a Student Assistant at Webster University-Thailand Campus.

His research interests include international relations, foreign policy analysis, international law, geopolitics, war and diplomacy, women and politics, and feminist international relations.

Rania Moaaz is a PhD Candidate of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She obtained her MA degree in Economics from Cairo University, and her BA in Economics from the American University in Cairo. Her research areas include public economics and regulation, financial economics and behavioral economics.

Sama has gained her B.Sc. in Political Science from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University 2021. Her research interests include international and regional affairs, Middle Eastern politics, gender politics, and the history of modern political thought. She is currently a full-time teaching assistant at NGU.

Muhammad is currently working as a teaching assistant of political science at NGU. He obtained a bachelor’s degree with honors in political science from Faculty of Economics and Political Science FEPS at Cairo University in 2018. Muhammad is currently doing his masters in political science at FEPS, working on a thesis titled “Determinants of Electoral Manipulation in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes”.

Before NGU, Muhammad worked for 18 months at the information and decision-support center IDSC of the Egyptian Cabinet, followed by 7 months at the General Secretariat of the Cabinet as a researcher.

Muhammad’s research interests include comparative politics, quantitative research methods, political economy, and authoritarian and hybrid regimes.

Fatma had her B.Sc. in Economics in 2019 from the faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo university. She worked at the faculty of Management Sciences in Modern University for Sciences and Arts (MSA). She is currently pursuing her master’s thesis entitled “What Determines Human Capital Development in The Era of Digitalization Empirical Evidence from Selected MENA Region Countries”. Fatma’s Research interests are Developmental economics, Gender inequality, Macroeconomics, Behavioral economics, Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Education Economics, Environment Economics. She is currently a full-time teaching assistant at NGU.

Nada holds a bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Socio-computing from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, and she is currently pursuing her master’s degree within the same institution. She has started her career as a data analyst for the UN-Women international organization in Egypt. Afterwards, she has joined October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA) as a teaching assistant. At the moment, she is working in the School of Economics and Politics in New Giza University (NGU) as a teaching assistant in Statistics and Mathematics.