Staff
Here you can find information on the staff of the DAAD Regional Office Cairo.

Carsten Walbiner holds a PhD in Oriental studies from Leipzig University. Through long years of working at DAAD headquarters and other institutions in Germany, Lebanon and Palestine he has gained a great experience in the field of academic cooperation between European and Arab partners. During the last five years he directed on behalf of the DAAD the HOPES(-LEB) project, an EU-funded initiative which aimed/aims at improving the situation of refugees of post-secondary age from Syria and young people in the host communities affected by the high influx of Syrian refugees, by addressing their higher education needs.



Miram Mahmoud
Coordinator for Higher Education and Research Marketing
- E-Mail: m.mahmoud@daadcairo.org

Ghada Medhat
Project Assistant for Higher Education and Research Marketing
- E-Mail: medhat@daadcairo.org

Heba Ahmed
Programme Coordinator for GERSS, GE-SEED, Prof. Dr. Mahfouz Kassem Scholarship, Reinvitation Programme, Bilateral Exchange of Academics.
- E-Mail: heba.ahmed@daadcairo.org



Mohamed Fathy
Programme Coordinator for Study Scholarships, German-Egyptian Progress Partnerships, AvH and all Master Programmes. Additionally responsible for the DAAD Kairo Akademie.
- E-Mail: Mohamed.Fathy@daadcairo.org

Nermine Abdelaty
Project Coordinator of COSIMENA (Clusters of Scientific Innovation in the Middle East and North Africa)
- E-Mail: abdelaty@daadcairo.org

Sally Hassan
Project Assistant of COSIMENA (Clusters of Scientific Innovation in the Middle East and North Africa)
- E-Mail: hassan@daadcairo.org


Bettina Kreisel
Programme Coordinator for Co-Financed and Standard Programmes
- E-Mail: kreisel@daadcairo.org

Riham Elfiky
Program Coordinator for German Studies/German as a Foreign Language in Egypt and Sudan
- E-Mail: elfiky@daadcairo.org