Nahla El-Menshawy

Associate Fellow

Nahla El-Menshawy is a Research Associate at Goethe Uni­versity Frankfurt and a PhD Student at the cluster initiative ConTrust. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Research Department Trans­national Politics. Her research interests are auto­cracies and legiti­mation processes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Nahla El-Menshawy
el-menshawy(at)prif.org

CV

| since 2022
Associate Fellow at PRIF

| since 2021
PhD Student at the “ConTrust”  cluster initiative

| since 2021
Research Fellow at Institute of Political Science, GU-Frankfurt

| 2021
Internship at German Corpo­ration for Inter­national Corpo­ration (GIZ), Depart­ment Near and Middle East

| 2020
Internship at German Institute for Inter­national and Security Affairs (SWP) in the research group Near and Middle East and Africa

| 2019–2020
Project Coordi­nator at Migration Hub Heidelberg

| 2018–2021
Masters program Political Science and Geo­graphy, Ruprecht-Karls-Uni­versity Heidelberg

| 2017
Internship at Deutsches Institut für Menschen­rechte

| 2016–2018
Student Assistant at Insti­tute of Social Science, Humboldt-Uni­versity Berlin

| 2015–2016
Erasmus visiting student bachelors program Euro­pean and Inter­national Studies, King‘s College London

| 2013–2018
Bachelors program Social Science, Humboldt-Uni­versity Berlin

Projects

Publications

  • Der Krieg im Jemen
    | 2023
    El-Menshawy, Nahla (2023): Der Krieg im Jemen, Domberg Akademie.
    Publication
  • Will the Protests in Iran Change Regional Power Dynamics in the Middle East?
    | 2022
    Karahamad, Mustafa; El-Menshawy, Nahla (2022): Will the Protests in Iran Change Regional Power Dynamics in the Middle East?, PRIF Blog.
    Publication
  • Why autocrats’ strategies of legitimation are worth studying
    | 2022
    El-Menshawy, Nahla (2022): Why autocrats’ strategies of legitimation are worth studying, The Loop.
    Publication
  • Kein technischer Prozess
    | 2020
    El-Menshawy, Nahla (2020): Kein technischer Prozess. Traditionelle Versöhnungsrituale in der Reintegration von Kindersoldaten, Friedensakademie-Blog.
    Publication

Further Activities

| since 2022
Co-Spokes­person of Early Career Re­searchers at ConTrust Cluster