Dr. Mona Saleh

• Since 10/2024: Associate Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies

• 01/2020 – 09/2024: Doctoral researcher at the GIGA doctoral program and the University of Lüneburg (Prof. Tobias Lenz).

• Since 04/2022: A research fellow in the African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP) project at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), Universität Duisburg-Essen

• 10/2024 – 09/2025: Lecturer, Political Science Program, Department of Social Sciences, Hamburg University, Germany.

• 09/2023 - 12/2023: Visiting Ph.D. Researcher, Department of Political Science and Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

• 09/2022 - 12/2022:  A visiting Ph.D. Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy

• 09/2019 - 12/2019: Mediterranean Dialogue (MED) Fellow, at NATO Defense College (NDC), Rome, Italy

• 11/2018 - 06/2022: Research Fellow in the project „ The Authority of International Organizations and Institutional Overlap” at the University of Lüneburg, Germany

• 07/2016 - 08/2018: Reporter-researcher, the Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Cairo, Egypt.

• 04/2014 - 09/2015: Research Assistant at the Global Affairs Program, Department of Public Policy and Administration – American University in Cairo, Egypt

• 10/2013 - 02/2014: Research Assistant at the Religion and Peacemaking Program, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) – Washington DC, USA

• Education: M.A. International Relations and Political Sciences - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, and M.A. of Global Affairs – School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt.

• Regional Organisations

• League of Arab States & African Union

• Legitimacy and Legitimation Strategies

• WMD Disarmament and non-proliferation.

North Africa