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Dr. Emad El-Din Shahin
Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD, International Relations
MA Equivalency, International Economics
Entity
College of Islamic Studies
Divison
Islamic Studies
Biography
Dr. Emad El-Din Shahin is a professor and former dean of HBKU’s College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Qatar Foundation (2016-2022). 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.
Dr. Shahin holds a PhD (1989) from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and 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 Universities.
His research and teaching interests focus on Islam and Politics, Comparative Politics, Democracy, and Political Reform in Muslim societies. Dr. 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 Interim Provost at HBKU (July 2019–March 2021), 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).
Dr. 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
Interim Provost
HBKU
July 2019 – March 2021
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
Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Columbia University
April 1, 2014 – March 15, 2015
Public Policy Scholar
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
February 2014 – August 2014
Professor of Public Policy and Administration (on leave)
School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo
Tenured, 2012
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
Lecturer
Boston University, Lecturer Course: Islam and Middle East Politics
Fall 2007 – July 2009
Faculty Affiliate
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Belfer Center, the Dubai Initiative
June 2007 – June 2008
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,