The Khamasin journal was started in 2006 by the American University in Cairo’s Department of Political Science. This journal is intended to serve as a forum for learning and dialogue within the AUC community and beyond. It responds to a desire voiced by both students and faculty to encourage a community of exchange at the departmental and school levels, and to reach out to a larger readership on contemporary issues of social and political import. Khamasin seeks to publish theoretical, field and research driven studies which address a variety of issues within the scope of political science in particular, and the social sciences and humanities in general.