Maha Bali
American University in Cairo Professor of Practice
Egypt
Maha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-founder of
virtuallyconnecting.org (a grassroots movement that challenges academic gatekeeping at conferences) and co-facilitator of
Equity Unbound (an equity-focused, open, connected intercultural learning curriculum, which has also branched into academic community activities
Continuity with Care and Socially Just Academia and a collaboration with OneHE:
Community-building Resources. She writes and speaks frequently about social justice, critical pedagogy, and open and online education. She blogs regularly at
http://blog.mahabali.me and tweets @bali_maha