• Migration & Refugees (diaspora, brain drain, religion, music, professional associations)
• Domestic Work
• Human Trafficking
• Gender
• Cultural Heritage

Amira Ahmed Mohamed currently teaches core courses on social anthropology, community development, and migration and refugees at the American University in Cairo (AUC): Sociology, Anthropology and Egyptology Department. She is also a principal investigator for a multi-county collaborative research project on the heritage of migrants and refugees. She worked previously as humanitarian and development practitioner with several national and international organizations such as UN-IOM in Jordan and Egypt and IFRC in Switzerland. Recent publication: co-author, chapter book “Skills for Science Systems in Africa: The Case of Brain Drain” (eds.) 2021. www.aucegypt.edu/fac/amira-ahmed