{"id":220,"date":"2018-11-02T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:42:09","slug":"american-university-in-cairo-egypt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/american-university-in-cairo-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"American University in Cairo, Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUC-FEPS\u00a0Research\u00a0Forums for Scholarly Exchange – 2024-2026<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>APSA MENA is supporting a collaborative initiative between the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS) at Cairo University through a structured series of research forums. This departmental collaboration supports bi-monthly research forums over a two-year period (October 2024\u2013September 2026), aimed at fostering sustained scholarly exchange between AUC\u2019s Political Science Department and FEPS. Since the launch of the initiative, ten joint research forums have already been held across three academic semesters at AUC\u2019s Tahrir and New Cairo campuses. Each forum follows a structured workshop model, with a presenter from one institution and a discussant from the other, followed by collective discussion. Presenters have included faculty members and PhD candidates from both institutions, as well as internationally based scholars and alumni, strengthening cross-institutional and transnational academic ties.<\/p>\n

Survey Experiments in Political Science Lecture \u2013 May 2021<\/strong>
\n<\/u>During the virtual lecture on \u201cSurvey Experiments in Political Science,\u201d Dr. Dawn Brancati introduced AUC students to survey experiments in political science by discussing various examples of survey experiments in different international settings. Twenty-two undergraduate and graduate students from the Political Science Department and the Migration and Refugee Studies Program at AUC attended the lecture. This lecture is part of the Social \u00a0Science Research Experiments and Student Workshop series,\u201d an APSA-AUC departmental collaboration that aims to analyze the effect of uncertainty on self-censorship experimentally. The workshops will convene in 2022; Dawn Bancati and Nadine Sika will conduct lab experiments at AUC which will be followed by a workshop for undergraduate and graduate students where researchers will discuss the essence of experimental research in political science through presenting their findings and analysis of this project.<\/p>\n

Graduate Thesis Writing Workshop \u2013 March 2020<\/strong>
\n<\/span>The workshop was led by Dawn Brancati and attended by 13 MA students from AUC, Cairo University, Alexandria University, and Future University in Egypt. The aim of the workshop was to improve MA students\u2019 writing skills, with a focus on their MA research proposals and theses. The two-day workshop included sessions on developing research questions, theoretical framework, literature review, and research methods and design, as well as sessions where participants received feedback on their research projects.<\/p>\n

New Approaches to Teaching Political Science \u2013 September 2019<\/strong>
\n<\/span>The workshop was led by Professor Simon Usherwood (University of Surrey, UK) with a goal of discussing a wide range of active learning approaches, including their purpose, design, implementation and incorporation into wider curricula. Ten faculty members from various Egyptian universities attended the two-day workshop, which included sessions on incorporating active learning in the classroom by designing games and simulations to engage students.<\/p>\n

Research Methodology workshop for MA students \u2013 May 2019<\/span><\/strong>
\nThis event was funded as part of a renewed collaboration between APSA and the Political Science Department at AUC for 2019-2020 to organize research methods trainings for students and teaching workshops for faculty members. Nadine Sika of AUC organized a workshop on research methodology for graduate students from AUC and Cairo University. The two-day program (see Agenda<\/a>) was attended by 13 students and featured lectures by Dawn Brancati (Columbia University), and group discussions led by Mostafa Hefny (AUC), Amr Adly, Nadine Sika (AUC) and Andrew Delatolla (AUC). The workshop sessions discussed a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches and their relevance to the students\u2019 projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cDissertation Writing\u201d workshop for MA students \u2013 September 2018<\/u><\/strong>
\nAPSA supported a partnership between May Darwich (Durham University) and Nadine Sika (AUC) to organize\u00a0a 2-day workshop on Dissertation Writing for\u00a0MA students from Egyptian universities. Eleven students\u00a0attended seminars\u00a0and small group discussions on how to develop their research proposals and theses, touching on areas such as research question, literature review, theoretical argument, research design, and methods (see Agenda.pdf<\/a>). The sessions also included strategies for writing the\u00a0abstract, introduction, and conclusion. Presentations and small group sessions were led by\u00a0Patrick Kuhn (Durham University) and Sossie Kasbarian (University of Stirling).<\/p>\n

\u201cResearch Methodology\u201d workshop for MA students \u2013 April 2018<\/u><\/strong>
\nAPSA supported Nadine Sika (AUC) in organizing a workshop on research methodology for\u00a0graduate\u00a0students from\u00a0AUC and Cairo University. The three-day program (see Agenda.pdf<\/a>) was attended by 17 students and featured lectures by\u00a0Dawn Brancati (Columbia University), Mazen Hassan\u00a0(FEPS, Cairo University), Tamer Elguindi (AUC), and Maroc Pinfari (AUC). Workshop\u00a0sessions discussed a range of\u00a0quantitative and qualitative methods and how they could be utilized\u00a0by students in their own projects.<\/p>\n

Thesis Proposal Writing Workshop for MA students\u00a0– April 2017<\/u><\/strong>
\nAPSA supported a three-day workshop for MA students from AUC and Cairo University, organized by Shimaa Hatab (Cairo University), Sandrine Gamblin (AUC), Nadine Sika (AUC). The program featured lectures by Dawn Brancati (Columbia University) and\u00a0Andrew Benett (Georgetown), and was intended to help participants narrow their MA thesis topics, better understand the use of different methodologies, and crisp their research questions and design.\u00a0Twenty\u00a0students attended the three-day workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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