Autor/-in: Mina Michel Samaan

Mina Michel Samaan obtained the degrees of B.Sc. and Msc. in Architectural Engineering from Mansoura University, Egypt, in 2008 and 2013 respectively. During his masters studies, he worked as a lecturer assistant in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Mansoura University. He also conducted two short-term research projects at the Technical University of Dresden and the Florida International University in 2011 and 2012 respectively. Mina has recently defended his PhD thesis in Political Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, through a three-year scholarship granted by the Excellence Center for Sustainable Water Management in Developing Countries (EXCEED-SWINDON), which is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). His doctoral dissertation traces the process and mechanisms through which conflict and cooperation have been generated among the Nile riparian states over large-scale developmental schemes along the past one and half centuries. Mina has participated in several international conferences and workshops (e.g. MPSA 2016, SWWW 2016, ISA 2017, and Water Diplomacy 2017 by SwedAlex). He published two articles in the Blue Series of the Institute of Social Sciences at TU-Braunschweig and wrote a chapter in the EXCEED-I five-year closing book.