Maysa Ayoub

Lecturer and researcher with 8+ years of experience teaching courses in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Co-supervised 4 MA theses and served as a reader in 10 theses’ committees. Published in the area of migration and refugee studies including four chapters in edited volumes and three articles in peer-reviewed journals. Invited to review for peer-reviewed Journals including the ‘Migration Studies Journal” and ‘Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies’

• Founding Member of the Stakeholder Advisory group on Migration in the Arab Region
• Founding Member of MENA Statelessness Platform
• Founding Member of the MENA Network of Scholars on Mixed Migration
• Member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM)
• Member of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)

• Reviewed for Migration Studies Journal, Oxford University Press
• Reviewed for Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
• Reviewed for Review of Economics and Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University
• Acting as the co-supervisor for seven MA theses and a reader for nine theses, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
• Acting as the secretariat of the MENA network of scholars on Mixed Migration, February 2022
• Served as the Academic Advisor to the student club 'Student Action for Refugee', 2008, 2013

• Strengthening Engagement with Academics on Mixed Migration Issues, IOM (International Organization for Migration), May 2021, Present
• Certificate on Migration Governance, IOM (International Organization for Migration), Fall 2016, Present
• Migration for Development, German Development Fund in Egypt (GIZ), December 2022, May 2023
• Displacement and Convergence of Illicit Flows, Research Center on Transnational Crime of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, July 2020, August 2021
• Preventing Statelessness in North Africa, Middle East Studies Center at the London School of Economics, February 2020, April 2021
• Interpreter Training Services, UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), May 2020, May 2022
• Can Do Refugees, EU Commission, September 2018, August 2021
• Research on Syrians refugees in Egypt, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and AUC’s School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, April 2013, September 2014
• Research on Sudanese refugees in Egypt, IDRC (International Development Research Center), October 2009, June 2012

• Developed Seven Modules on Migration Governance, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• Select topics and speakers for the short courses and public lectures, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo

• Marriage in Exile: Refugees and Asylum seekers in Egypt, Maysa Ayoub, April 2024, Rutgers University Press
• Media, Public Opinion, and Migration Policies in Euro-Mediterranean Countries: The Case of France, Maysa Ayoub, 2023, Springer
• Preventing Statelessness among Migrants and Refugee Children in North Africa, Maysa Ayoub, June 2021, Cairo Studies on Migration and Refugees
• Millions of People continue to be forcibly displaced in Africa, Africa’ Great’s Leap…?, Maysa Ayoub, Summer 2021, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs
• Understanding Germany’s response to 2015 Refugee Crisis, Maysa Ayoub, 2019, Review of Economics and Political Science
• Interest groups and Refugee Policy-Making: The Case of Germany, Maysa Ayoub, 2019, Cairo Papers in Social Science
• Gender, Social Class and Exile: The case of Syrian women in Egypt, Maysa Ayoub, 2017, Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities, and Migration
• Situation of Syrian Refugees in Egypt, Maysa Ayoub, 2016, German Orient-Foundation
• Sudanese Refugees in Cairo: Remittances and Livelihoods, Maysa Ayoub, Karin Jacobsen, 2014, Journal of Refugee Studies
• Syrian Refugees in Egypt: Challenges of a politically changing environment, Maysa Ayoub, Sara Khallaf, 2014, Cairo Studies on Migration and Refugees
• Migrants sharing the streets of Cairo: Can they assert their right to the city? A Case Study of Sudanese Migrants, Maysa Ayoub, 2014, SSIIM Paper Series
• Remittances to Transit Countries: The impact on Sudanese refugee livelihoods in Cairo, Maysa Ayoub, Karin Jacobsen, Anita Johnsen, 2012, Cairo Studies on Migration and Refugees
• The concurrence of public opinion and asylum policy, Maysa Ayoub, Submitted for publication, Migration studies Journal, Oxford University Press

• Preventing Statelessness among refugees and migrants in Egypt, December 07, 2021, The American University in Cairo
• Reasons behind the increased irregular movement across the Mediterranean, December 3, 2020, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
• The Social Construction of 'refugeeness': How Syrian Refugees are perceived in two European Countries, July 24-27, 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece
• The Methodological and Ethical Challenges of conducting Research with Refugees and Migrants in Developing Countries, December 7-8, 2017, Washington DC
• Challenges of Hosting and Integrating refugees in countries of first Asylum, February 25-26, 2016, Roskilde University, Denmark
• Livelihoods of Refugees from the Horn of Africa in Egypt: Finding Durable Solutions, November 18-19, 2015, Khartoum
• Syrian Refugees in Egypt: Challenges of a politically changing environment, November 2014, Cairo, Egypt
• Migrants and the Arab Spring: Domestic workers in Egypt, October 2013, New Orleans
• Remittances to Conflict Zones: Sudanese Diaspora in Cairo, March 2012, Venice, Italy
• Sudanese Diaspora in Cairo, October 2011, Cairo
• Egyptian Policies towards Refugees, August 2011, Cairo

Founding Member of the Stakeholder Advisory group on Migration in the Arab Region https://mena.iom.int/news/un-network-migration-arab-region-held-first-regional-stakeholder-advisory-group-meeting-cairo

Founding Member of MENA Statelessness Platform https://www.statelessmena.com/about/

Founding Member of the MENA Network of Scholars on Mixed Migration

Member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), https://iasfm.org/