Obtained her PhD in 1990 in Sociology from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo. From 2009-2011 Mona Abaza was a visiting professor of Islamology, Department of Theology, Lund University. Visiting scholar in Singapore at the Institute for South East Asian Studies (ISEAS) 1990-1992, Kuala Lumpur 1995-96, Paris (EHESS) 1994, Berlin (Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg) 1996-97, Leiden (IIAS) 2002-2003, Wassenaar (NIAS) 2006-2007 and Bellagio (Rockefeller Foundation) 2005.