الدكتور عماد الدين شاهين | Hamad Bin Khalifa University

الدكتور عماد الدين شاهين

أستاذ دكتور

البريد الإلكتروني

eshahin@hbku.edu.qa

موقع المكتب

C.02.032

الدكتور عماد الدين شاهين

أستاذ دكتور

المؤهلات العلمية

PhD, International Relations

MA Equivalency, International Economics

الكيان

كلية الدراسات الإسلامية

Divison

الدراسات الإسلامية

السيرة الذاتية

Emad El-Din Shahin is the Interim Provost of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and the Dean of HBKU’s College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Qatar Foundation. Before joining CIS, he was the Hasib Sabbagh Distinguished Visiting Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, a visiting professor of Political Science at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics. 

Shahin holds a PhD (1989) from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, an MA (1983) and a BA (1980) from the American University in Cairo. He has taught in leading universities in the United States including Harvard, Notre Dame, Georgetown, George Washington, and Boston University.

His research and teaching interests focus on Islam and Politics, Comparative Politics, Democracy and Political Reform in Muslim societies. Shahin has authored, co-authored and co-edited six books and has more than 50 scholarly publications including journal articles, book chapters and encyclopedia entries. His publications include Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa (1998), co-editorship with Nathan Brown of The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa (2010); and co-authorship of Islam and Democracy (2005 in Arabic). He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (2014) and co-editor with John L. Esposito of The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics (2013).

Previously, Shahin was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (April 2014- March 15), public policy scholar at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (February- August 2014). He was the Henry R. Luce Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (2009-2012). He was visiting associate professor in the department of Government at Harvard University (2006-2009), faculty affiliate with the Kennedy School of Government, and visiting scholar in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School (2006-2007).

Shahin was nominated two years in a row for the Harvard University Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, May 2007 and May 2008; and is the recipient of the AUC Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award for the Academic Year 2001-2002.

PhD, International Relations

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, SAIS, Washington, DC

November 1989

MA Equivalency, International Economics

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, SAIS, Washington, DC

1984

MA Political Science

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, Egypt

1983

BA Political Science, minor in Economics, Highest Honors

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, Egypt

1980

  • Islam and Politics
  • Muslim Political Thought
  • Comparative Politics
  • Democracy and Political Reform in Muslim societies

Dean

College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University,Qatar

December 2016 - 2022

Senior Fellow

Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University

2017-present

Hasib Sabbagh Distinguished Visiting Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies

School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Nov. 2015 - Dec. 2016

Visiting Professor

Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service

August 2014 - Dec 2016

Professor of Public Policy and Administration (on leave)

School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo

Tenured, 2012

Distinguished Visiting Scholar

Columbia University

April 1, 2014 – March 15, 2015

Public Policy Scholar

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

February 2014 – August 2014

Henry R. Luce Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding,

University of Notre Dame, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

2009-2012

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

University of Notre Dame Courses: Globalization, Development and Democracy in the Middle East; Islam and Politics in the Middle East; Islam and Modernity; Non-Violent and Violent Revolutions in the Arab World.

2009-2012

Harvard University, Department of Government Visiting Associate Professor

Courses: Comparative Politics and the Middle East; Globalization, Development, and the Middle East; Contemporary Political Islam; Contemporary Arab Political and Social Thought.

January 2006 - July 2009

Faculty Affiliate

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Belfer Center, the Dubai Initiative

June 2007- June 2008

Lecturer

Boston University, Lecturer Course: Islam and Middle East Politics

Fall 2007 - July 2009

Visiting Associate Professor

Harvard University, Department of Government Course: Contemporary Political Islam

Spring 2006

Visiting Scholar

Harvard University, Law School, Islamic Legal Studies Program

Spring 2006

Visiting Associate Professor

Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Courses: Comparative Governments of the Middle East; Post-Revolutionary Egypt

Fall 2005

Professorial Lecturer

George Washington University, Washington, DC, International Relations and Political Science Courses: Culture and International Affairs

January 1998-June 1998

Assistant Professor

Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco (01/96-12/97) Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Science Courses: • Graduate: Muslim Societies and the West, Islamic Civilization, Political Science Module • Undergraduate: Comparative Political Systems, International Relations, Introduction to the Study of Islamic Civilization, Contemporary World History

January 1996-December 1997

Professorial Lecturer

George Washington University, Washington, DC Comparative Politics and Political Science Courses: • Graduate: North African Governments and International Relations • Undergraduate: Comparative Politics of the Middle East

Fall 1994, Fall 1995

  • (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press). Paperback edition.

  • University of Denver, Carnegie Centennial Distinguished Visiting Scholar, (May- July 2015)
  • Columbia University, Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Distinguished Visiting Scholar 
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Public Policy Scholar 
  • International Institute of Islamic Thought, Distinguished Scholar Award 
  • Nominated two years in a row for the Harvard University Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, 
  • Recipient of the AUC Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award for the Academic Year.
  • Kennedy School of Government, the Dubai Initiative, Faculty Affiliate
  • Harvard University, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Visiting Scholar
  • AUC Research Grant to conduct research in Beirut, Lebanon, 
  • The American Institute of Maghrebi Studies Grant,