Dr. May Darwich

Profile - Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham

Associate

Visiting Fellow | 04/2018 - 07/2018

GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies

Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany

M.Darwich@bham.ac.uk

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Personal Information

Short biography

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)

Research & Teaching

Current Research

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

Countries and Regions

Saudi Arabia
Egypt
Syria and the Middle East

Teaching

Introduction to Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science, fall 2014
Democracy in Comparative Perspective, University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science, spring 2013
Political Islam, University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science, spring 2013 and 2014
Politics of the Middle East, University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science, fall 2012 and 2013
Introduction to International Relations, University of Edinburgh, International Foundation Program, summer 2013 and 2014
Introduction to International Relations, University of Edinburgh, Open Studies Program, spring 2014
Arab Political Regimes, Cairo University, fall 2010
Theory of International Relations, Cairo University, spring 2012

Publications

Recent Refereed Articles

Darwich, May (2017), Creating the enemy, constructing the threat: the diffusion of repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East, in: Democratization, 24, 7, 1289-1306

Darwich, May (2016), Ideational and Material Forces in Threat Perception: The Divergent Cases of Syria and Saudi Arabia during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), in: Journal of Global Security Studies, 1, 2, 142-156

Darwich, May (2016), The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy, in: Foreign Policy Analysis, 12, 3, 469-488

Recent Articles

Darwich, May (2016), Book review of “Democracy Promotion and Foreign Policy: Identity and Interests in US, EU and Non-Western Democracies”, by Daniela Huber, in: Democratization, 23, 4, 772-774

Darwich, May (2016), Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in: Richard C. Martin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd edition, Farmington Hills: Macmillan Reference USA

Darwich, May (2015), Machtprestige als Motiv des saudischen Krieges im Jemen, GIGA Focus Middle East, 06/2015, Hamburg: GIGA

Darwich, May (2014), The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy, GIGA Working Paper, No. 263, December 2014, Hamburg: GIGA

Darwich, May (2013), Arab Revolutions: Between National Demands and Supranational Implications, in: Nadia Moustafa / Amal Hamada (eds.), Arab Uprisings and the Study of Political Science, Cairo: Cairo University, 416-442