Engi Abou-El-kheir

Holding a Master's degree in political science from the University of Ottawa following an Honours Bachelor’s in anthropology, Engi Abou-El-Kheir is currently pursuing a mixed method doctoral thesis in comparative politics through a cotutelle with Sciences Po Paris under the direction of Florence Haegel, and the University of Ottawa under the direction of Daniel Stockemer. She is currently a doctoral fellow at the Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies and a research and policy advisor with the Canadian Arab Institute and will be a visiting researcher at Concordia University and the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3. She has previously been a research associate or assistant at NORDIK Institute/Algoma University and the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.

Conference

Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), University of Ottawa/KAS Chair

Organizer, presenter, panel chair – June 2026 

Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), FHSS, George Brown College

Presented “Causes and effects of democratic dissatisfaction in Lebanon and Morocco” – June 2025

Graduate Student Conference, University of Ottawa

Presented “Les raisons des révoltes arabes en Egypte et Tunisie : Entre slogans et sondages” – May 2025

Democracy Under Scrutiny: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Causes and Consequences of Democratic Dissatisfaction, University of Ottawa

Organizer and coordinator, and panel discussant – October 2024

Société québécoise de science politique (SQSP), 61e Congrès, University of Ottawa

Presented “The Polarity of Arab Canadians’ Political Affiliations” – May 2024

Canadian Association for Studies in Cooperation (CASC), FHSS, York University

Presented “Ethnocultural and Indigenous cooperatives in Canada today” – May 2023

Her Master’s and doctoral research center on how the vote, partisanship, and political affiliation of diaspora minorities in the Western world intersect with religion, culture, citizenship, and belonging, mainly focusing on Arab-origin citizens in Europe and North America. She has carried out other research on women and ethnic minorities in politics, as well as Middle Eastern politics.

Engi has been a teaching assistant for various political science classes, including on political participation and international relations. She has also aided in the supervision of undergraduate students in directed research classes and quantitative methods summer schools.

Canada Graduate Research Scholarship—Doctoral (SSHRC, CGRS-D) (2026-2029)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2025-2026)
Master’s thesis distinction (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, 2024)

Abou-El-Kheir, E. (2026). The political affiliations of Arab Canadians: Between multiculturalism and religion. Ethnicities. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968261434192

Stockemer, D., Abou-El-Kheir, E., & Lopatina, A. (2026). Candidates with Arab names in German municipal elections: An underrepresented minority. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. doi:10.1017/rep.2026.10059

Stockemer, D., Abou-El-Kheir, E., & Sawyer, S. (2026). Closing the gender gap in political science publishing: The role of female editorial boards. European Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/S168209832510017

Stockemer, D., Galassi, G., & Abou-El-Kheir, E. (2026). A fresh look at the publication and citation gap between men and women: Insights from economics and political science. Humanities and Social Science Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-06786-z

Stockemer, D., Galassi, G., & Abou-El-Kheir, E. (2025). Closing the publishing gender gap in economics and political science: Does a critical mass matter? PLoS One, 20(5), e0323364. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323364

Abou-El-Kheir, E. (2026). Causes and effects of democratic dissatisfaction in Lebanon and Morocco. In D. Stockemer, E. Abou-El-Kheir & K. Kolodziejczyk (Eds.), Democracy under scrutiny (pp. 59-77). Springer.

Stockemer, D., Galassi, G., & Abou-El-Kheir, E. (2025). A fresh look at the publication and citation gap between men and women: Insights from economic and political science. Bank of Canada. 

Sengupta, U., & Abou-El-Kheir, E. (2023). The landscape of ethnocultural, racialized, and Indigenous cooperatives in Canada. Cooperatives and Mutuals Canada. 

Abou-El-Kheir, E., & Stockemer, D. (in progress, forthcoming). Sociology and politics. In Encyclopedia of Political Science. Elsevier. [Lead section editor].

Abou-El-Kheir, E., & Stockemer, D. (in progress, forthcoming). Political behaviour. In Encyclopedia of Political Science. Elsevier. [Lead section editor].

Stockemer, D., Abou-El-Kheir, E., & Kolodziejczyk, K. (Eds). (2026). Democracy under scrutiny. Springer.

Interviewed April 2025 for/interviewée avril 2025 pour : [Reportage] Les élections fédérales et la communauté arabe. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/fr/nouvelle/2159965/elections-federales-2025-canada-communaute-arabe