I am a Senior Research Officer, on the project: "Cumulative Civilian Harm in War: Addressing the Hidden Human Toll of the Law's Blind Spot", at the Essex Law School.

I hold a PhD in Government, from the University of Essex. My main research focuses on terrorism and conflict dynamics, including strategies and behaviours of militant groups. 

In my PhD dissertation, I studied the causes, processes and consequences of local Islamist militants affiliating with transnational networks of jihad. My recent research is published in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression.

I hold two Master Degrees. The first is in Public Policy, from the American University in Cairo, and the second is in Comparative and International Studies from ETH-Zurich.

For my undergraduate studies, I am trained as a Mechanical Engineer and I worked in engine optimisation until the Revolution in Egypt erupted in 2011. It was only a matter of time before I had a full change of heart and gradually realised - given all the events that followed in Egypt and the neighbouring countries - that I want to pursue an academic career that allows me to understand how and why things turned the way they did at the wake of the Arab Spring.

Since I started my career shift, I have worked as a human rights researcher and program coordinator with focus on media freedom in Egypt, and a research fellow for the international project "Ethnic Power Relations and Conflict in Fragile States". I also held various research assistant positions for projects such as "Peacekeeping Dividends and Post-conflict Development" and "Extreme Violence against Women". I also assisted teaching different modules at the University of Essex and King's College London.