Dr. May Darwich

• Since 2020: Associate at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies

• Since 2020: Lecturer in International Relations of the Middle East at the University of Birmingham

• 04/2018 - 07/2018: Visiting Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies

• 2016 - 2019: Lecturer in International Relations of the Middle East and/or the Muslim World in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University

• 2014 - 2015: Research Fellow at GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies

• 2011 - 2015: PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science, Politics & IR Department (Thesis Working Title: Threat Perception and Alliance Choice in Middle East International Relations: The Cases of Syria and Saudi Arabia)

• Education: MA of International Politics, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, Science Po Bordeaux, France; BA, Political Science (minor: Economics), Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt

• Awards and Scholarships: Scholarship of the Arab-British Chamber Commerce Charitable Foundation (2012-2013), Global Supplementary Grant, the Open Society Foundation (2011-2012), Bernard Crick Fellowship, University of Edinburgh (2011-2012), Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie Masters Scholarship (2009-2010), French Government scholarship (2009-2010), Mohamed Farid Khamis Foundation Scholarship for academic achievement (2005-2009)

Profil

• Foreign Policy Analysis of Middle Eastern States

• The Interplay Identity and Power in Middle East International Relations

• Identity politics

• Alliances and Threat Perception

• Regime-society relations

• Authoritarianism in the Middle East