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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Riham Bahi

Associate Professor at Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences
Department of Political Sciences
Academic Coordinator of Euro-Mediterranean Studies Program
Cairo University, Egypt

Biography

Riham Bahi is an Associate Professor of international relations at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. Dr. Bahi was a visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo (2009-2018).
Dr. Bahi earned her PhD in International and Public Aff airs from Northeastern University in Boston, where she also
received her MA in International Relations and Comparative Politics.
Dr. Bahi is the academic coordinator of the Euro-Mediterranean Studies program at Cairo University. Dr. Bahi is a member of the Future Studies and Risk Management Council at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology. She serves as Associate Editor for Review of Economics and Political Science (the quarterly journal of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, published by Emerald).
Dr. Bahi was a visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Freie Universität Berlin (November 2017), and a visiting Professor at the Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University, Poland (November-December 2018). Dr. Bahi served as Education Consultant for HarssMap, incorporating sexual harassment as a study and research topic in different curricula and disciplines as well as the Population Council developing and implementing programs for strengthening the capacity of doctoral students in dissertation research and writing. She is a DAAD trainer contributing to skills enhancement among Egyptian academics.
Dr. Bahi has experience in program and curriculum development, capacity building programs for faculty and students, and running short-term study abroad programs in Egypt for international students. She worked as the academic coordinator for AMIDEAST Education Abroad Program (2010-2012).
Dr. Bahi has received many awards and honors, including a Fulbright Pre-Doctoral award and the teaching “expert credentials” from the Center for Effective University Teaching at Northeastern University.
Her research interests include international relations and global governance, gender studies, Egypt and U.S. Foreign Policies, Iran-Gulf relations and Euro-Mediterranean relations.

Recent Publications

Bahi, R., „Islamic and Secular Feminisms: Two Discourses Mobilized for Gender Justice“, European Research Meeting, Florence, Italy, EUI RSCAS; 2011/25; Mediterranean Programme Series, April 2011.
Bahi, R., „Egypt-Iran Relations Post-Nuclear Deal: Pitfalls and Promises“, Review of Economics and Political Science , vol. 1, issue 2, pp. 87-107, 2016.
Bahi, R., „Egypt as a Leading Nation: Regional Imperatives and Domestic Constraints“, in Diplomatic Strategies of Leading Nations in the Global South, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Bahi, R., “Regionalism in Hard Times: Brexit and the Limits of Hegemonic Regionalism”, Review of Economics and Political Science, January 2017.
Bahi, R., “Iran, GCC and the Implications of the Nuclear Dear: Rivalry Versus Engagement”, International Spectator, June 2017.