Bassant Hassib

Dr. Bassant Hassib (she/her) 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.