Professor Maha Abdelrahman

Professor Abdelrahman worked as an Associate Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo before joining the Centre of Development Studies in 2007. She has carried out consultancies for international development organisations such as UNICEF, OXFAM NOVIB and DANIDA. She is a member of the editorial board of the Cairo Papers in Social Science.

Professor Abdelrahman’s research interests cover a wide range of aspects of the sociology and politics of development including state-civil society relations, opposition politics and social movements, human rights and labour relations and NGOs – both at the global level and within the context of the Middle East.