Full Name: Maysa Abbas Ayoub.

Affiliation: Associate Director, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, The American University in Cairo.

Short Biography:

Maysa Ayoub is the Associate Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS). She has been with CMRS since 2004 and, as such, has been involved in developing most of the center’ projects and activities including the development of the MA program in 2008. Her responsibility as the Associate Director includes supervising research projects, writing grant proposals, and managing the various outreach and training activities of the center. She has a PhD in Euro-Mediterranean studies from the faculty of political science, Cairo University. Her dissertation examined the relationship between public opinion, media, and migration policy. Prior to that she obtained an MA in Sociology and a graduate diploma in migration studies from AUC and a BA in economics from Cairo University. She taught undergraduate courses with AUC’ Sociology unit from 2007-2016. Since 2016, she has been teaching with CMRS.