Nadine Sika

Nadine Sika is a professor of Comparative Politics at the American University in Cairo.

She was the chair and the graduate director of the political science program at AUC. Her research
interests are in comparative democratisation, contentious politics and youth political participation in the Middle East and North Africa. She is an associate editor of Democratization and the book reviews editor of Mediterranean Politics. She is the author of Youth Activism and Contentious Politics in Egypt: Dynamics of Continuity and Change (Cambridge UP, 2017), Youth in Egypt: Identity, Participation and Opportunity (NYU Press, 2023) and Civil Society Activism in the Middle East: Dynamics of Breakdown and Continuity (Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming). She is the editor of Youth in the Mediterranean (Routledge 2021). Her recent articles
appeared in journals such as Democratization, Political Studies, Mediterranean Politics and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. She has been a recipient of various international grants since 2011, from the Volkswagen Foundation, Carnegie Corporation New York and the European Commission. In 2014 she received the Georg Foster research fellowship from Humboldt Foundation, through which she was granted two visiting fellowships at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (2014-2015; 2019). She was also awarded a Humboldt Foundation’s research group linkage project in cooperation with Leipzig University
(2022-2024).