Nadine Sika

Nadine Sika is an associate professor of Comparative Politics at The American University in Cairo. She is the author of the book Youth Activism and Contentious Politics in Egypt: Dynamics of Continuity and Change (Cambridge UP, 2017) and co-editor with Eberhard Kienle of the Arab Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power (I.B. Tauris 2015). She was Humboldt Foundation Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin (2014-2015). She was also a guest scholar at the Political Science Institute at Tübingen University in Germany and a consultant to the UNDP, Regional Arab Office on poverty and good governance. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Institution for Public Opinion Polling Baseera. Her research interests are in democratization, contentious politics and youth civic and political engagement in the MENA region. She is currently the primary investigator of a research project on civil society in the Middle East.