German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

Dr. Mona Saleh

Associate

Short CV

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.

Current Research

Regional Organisations
League of Arab States & African Union
Legitimacy and Legitimation Strategies
WMD Disarmament and non-proliferation.

Countries and Regions

North Africa

Memberships

International Studies Association, Membership in discipline-specific association or network, since 2021
International Political Science Association, Membership in discipline-specific association or network, since 2021
Middle East Studies Association, Membership in discipline-specific association or network, since 2021
Midwest Political Science Association, Membership in discipline-specific association or network, since 2021

Dissertation

Surviving Complexity: How International Organizations Claim Legitimacy Under Conditions of Institutional Overlap. The Case of the African Union

Dr. Mona Saleh

Associate

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GIGA Focus Middle East | 6/2023

Converging Interests, Diverging Realities: Arab League–EU Cooperation

Caught in an endless cycle of engagement–suspicion–decline, the EU–Arab League relationship, now fractured anew by the Gaza crisis, requires deeper engagement and collaboration, extending beyond traditional security concerns, to break the existing cycle and profoundly reshape diplomatic realities.

Dr. Mona Saleh

Associate

Ass. Prof. Dr. James Worrall

University of Leeds

GIGA Focus Africa | 4/2021

The Political Deadlock on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

The failure of the latest talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has intensified tensions between Ethiopia and downstream states Egypt and Sudan, and challenged traditional dynamics in the Nile River Basin. The authors explain the political stalemate based on three key factors.

Dr. Hana Attia

Associate

Dr. Mona Saleh

Associate

Policy Forum | 06/2018

A New Egyptian Track II Approach to the WMD/DVs-Free Zone in the Middle East/Gulf

Dr. Mona Saleh

Associate

E-International Relations | 05/2017

Border Control and Migration Fatalities in the Mediterranean Sea

Dr. Mona Saleh

Associate

E-International Relations | 01/2016

Hassan al-Banna: A Starting Point for Contemporary Islamic Fundamentalism

Dr. Mona Saleh

Associate

Frankfurter Rundschau | Quote | 11/12/2024

Zwei neue Russland-Freunde geraten aneinander: Droht der „Wasserkrieg“ in Afrika?

Werden die nächsten Kriege um Wasser geführt. Einen großen Wasserkrieg gab es bislang nicht – ändert sich das? GIGA-Forscherin Mona Saleh liefert Hintergründe.

Arms Control TODAY | Article | 01/06/2021