Professor of International Relations and Political Economy at the American University in Cairo, and Director of the AUC Forum.
He is also a Research Professor at the University of Montreal and an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Canada. Co-founder and first Director of the Inter-University Consortium of Middle Eastern Studies (Canada). Dr Korany’s post-graduate working experience has been varied: e.g. in the United Nations (European Office), 1970-74, and in academia.
He started his academic career in 1970, first at the graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva 1970-74 and at the University of Montreal, 1974 to the present (research Professor 2000- ), and the American University in Cairo since 2000 . Dr Korany has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Dakar, Laval, Carleton, Harvard (visiting scholar), McGill, Algiers, Aix-Marseille, Oxford, Graduate Institute of Arab Studies (Cairo), Paris, and Princeton etc. He is a founding member of the International organization of South-South cooperation (Beijing), Deputy Chairman then Chairman of the National Council of Canada-Arab Relations (Ottawa, 1994-1996) and Deputy Chairman of the Association of Egyptian Scientists in Canada (Montreal 1990-1999).
As for publications, Dr. Korany has been active in media (e.g. articles in Al-Ahram, regular columnist to the Friday edition of the UAE’s El-Ittihad, Radio and TV interviews in North America, Europe and the Middle East). Academically, Prof. Korany has authored more than 135 conference papers, was a guest editor of special issues of international journals (International Political Science Review, Études Internationales, Third World Quarterly), has published 4 monographs, 9 books, contributed chapters to about 26 other books and about 25 articles in such periodicals as International Social Sciences Journal, , Revue Française de science politique, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Third World Q., El-Siassa El-Dawliyya, El-Moustaqbal El-Arabi, Third World Affairs Yearbook, Mediterranean Politics, World Politics. Some of his writings have been translated and published in Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. He was, or still is, a member of the Editorial Board of several established periodicals, e.g. Canadian Political Science Review, Études Internationales, Third World Affairs Yearbook, International Interactions, European Journal of International Relations, Mediterranean Politics; International Studies Quarterly. His first book, Social change, Charisma and International Behavior was awarded the 1976 Hauchman prize. Since his 1994- election to Canada’s Royal Academy, Bahgat Korany has been included in the annual Canadian WHO’s WHO