Education:
PhD in Political science, Cairo University (2021-2024)
MSc in Political science, Cairo University (2018-2021)
BSc in Political Science, Cairo University (2014- 2018)

Research Interest:
Comparative Politics
Autocratic transitions
Religion and Politics
Terrorism

Recent Publications:
English Peer-reviewed Publications :
Dina Osama Lotfy (2024) Religious Institutions’ Stances towards Autocratization in the Post-Third Wave Period, Government and Opposition 59:2, 441–63, DOI: 10.1017/gov.2023.39
Dina Osama Lotfy (2024). Religious Markets and Autocratization in Africa. In: Religion and Politics in Africa. African social Research, Volume 4.
Dina Osama Lotfy (2022) Institutional constraints and regional incentives for the attempt to scrap presidential term limits, Democratization, 29:4, 569-590, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2021.1975678
Publications in Arabic:
Dina Osama Lotfy (2021), ‘Issues of negotiating with Terrorist Organizations in the African Sahel’, In: Ahmed Amal (ed.) Terrorism in the African Sahel, Cairo: Egyptian Center for Strategic Studies.
Dina Osama Lotfy (2021), ‘Sources of Financing Terrorist Organizations in the African Sahel’, Al-Siyasa Al-Dawlia (International Politics), Vol. 223, pp. 19-23.
Dina Osama Lotfy (2019), ‘Democratic Backsliding in Third Wave Democracies’, Majalet Al-Demokrateyia (Democracy journal), Vol. 76, pp. 10-27.