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Shaimaa MAGUED is lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. Previously she served as Research Fellow at the Center of Migrations and Refugees Studies at the American University of Cairo (AUC) in 2012. Shaimaa obtained a PhD degree from SciencesPo Aix in France in International Relations after pursuing post-graduate studies at Sciences Po Paris. She was awarded a 'Building Next Scholars’ Fulbright scholarship as well as a French Government Scholarship to pursue her studies. Her research interests and publications look at Middle East politics, Political Islam, Egyptian Foreign Policy, Turkish politics, Turkish-Arab relations and the Arab Uprising. Shimaa has been affiliated with the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA) in Istanbul, the CEDEJ in Cairo and the National Security Department at the Arab League in Cairo. A visiting fellow at CILAS in the Social Sciences, Shaimaa will be coordinating the thematic course Rethinking Morality in International Relations.