Currently, I am a visiting PhD student at Yale! I am a doctoral student at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Before Oxford, I studied at Mannheim focusing on Advanced Quantitative Methods in Political Science. I was a pre-doc/visiting scholar at the University of Houston before starting my PhD.
My research focuses on two topics 1) Political Economy of Development and 2) Foreign Influence on Domestic Politics. I focus on aspects related to economic history of the local development of public good provision, informal social-welfare, and the political economy of Islamic institutions. My research also draws on questions related to the politics of information, and how foreign policy tools, such as economic sanctions, interact with domestic politics.
Methodologically, I am very interested in generating new sources of quantitative data that reveal valuable infromation that would be otherwise lost in the archives. My work incorporates retrieval and digitalization of historical maps, textual data, and several other sources of archival data; other than that my work employs methods of Computational Text Analysis and Natural Language Processing on corpora of Arabic, German, English, and French texts.
My work has been published or is forthcoming at the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Journal of Peace Research.
I am a former professional swimmer for the Egyptian Swimming National Team, for which I competed professionally for several years. I still find myself thinking more clearly while doing all those endless laps at the pool. I enjoy reading about Islamic Art and Architecture.
DPhil (PhD) in Politics, 2023
University of Oxford
Visiting Doctoral Student, 2022
Yale University
MA in Political Science (Advanced Quantitative Methods), 2018
University of Mannheim
BA in Political Science and Psychology, 2016
University of Mannheim
Visiting Undergraduate Student, 2015
Trinity College Dublin
I undertook the following further academic training:
More information on my dissertation project will be updated soon.