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Professional Affiliation

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of London (UoL) Programmes, European Universities in Egypt (EUE)

Expert Bio

Dr. Bassant Hassib is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the University of London (UoL) Programmes at the European Universities in Egypt (EUE). She is also a Non-Resident Scholar with the Strategic Technologies and Cybersecurity Program at the Middle East Institute and a Visiting Fellow at the University of South Wales. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the British University in Egypt (BUE), a Fellow at the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) at the University of Leicester, and a consultant with the International Security Program at Chatham House. Her areas of expertise include cybersecurity politics and governance in the Middle East; digital authoritarianism, (counter)surveillance and digital activism; gendered cybersecurity threats; the geopolitics of cybersecurity, internet infrastructure, and the digital economy; risks, ethics, and regulation of AI; military AI and cyber capabilities; and the securitization of cryptocurrencies in MENA.