[1] He is editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics,[2] and professor of public policy at The American University in Cairo (on leave).
Recently, Shahin was affiliated with The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,[4] and Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University.
Previously, Shahin was the Henry R. Luce Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, (2009-2012) and was affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government,[5] and the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School (2006-2009).
ISBN 978-0813336176 Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997).
Through Muslim Eyes: Muhammad Rashid Rida and the West (Herndon, VA: International Institute for Islamic Thought, 1993).
North Africa section editor, Modernist Islam: A Source Book, Kurzman, Charles, ed., (Oxford University Press, 2002).
"Egypt," with Nathan Brown, in Angrist, Michele Penner ed., Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East (Lynne Reinner, 2010).
Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone, WadadKadi, Devin Stewart, and M. Qasim Zaman (Princeton University Press, 2013) "Toleration in Modern Islamic Polity: Contemporary Islamist Views," in Creppell, Ingrid, Stephen Macedo, and Russel Hardin, eds., Toleration on Trial (Lexington Books, 2008).
Dr Shahin's op-eds were published in The New York Times, The Washington Post,[6] The Guardian,[7] CNN,[8] Atlantic Monthly,[9] Foreign Policy, Al-Ahram[10] and Al-Shorouk.
He has also made appearances with Charlie Rose, Diane Rhem Show, Christiane Amanpour,[11] NPR,[12] CNN, BBC, CBC Canada, Voice of America, Huffington Post,[13] Al-Jazeera Arabic and English.
In January 2014 Shahin was accused in a case known as "Grand Espionage" The charges included: espionage, leading an illegal organization, providing a banned organization with information and financial support, calling for the suspension of the constitution, preventing state institutions and authorities from performing their functions, harming national unity and social harmony, and causing to change the government by force.
[14] Following the charges, Shahin received international support from fellow scholars,[15] academic institutions[16] and organizations among those were The Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA),[17] The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,[18]Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University,[19] The International Steering Committee of the Community of Democracies,[20] On May 16, 2015, Shahin was sentenced to death in absentia by a Cairo court, along with former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy and 100 others.
They called on governments throughout the world "to speak out and communicate their concern to their Egyptian counterparts and to rebuff any efforts to restrict Professor Shahin’s movements, speech, and activities."
Similarly, the Committee of Concerned Scientists joined the numerous academics who condemned this sentence which it described as " retaliation for Shahin’s pro-democracy stance.
[11] His story was also featured in international media outlets such as VG,[27] Die Welt,[28] BILD,[29] El Mundo,[30] La Presse Canada,[31] Internazionale,[32] Le Figaro.