Principal Investigator
Dr Nour Zaki
Founder & Director · Assistant Professor of Psychology, The American University in Cairo
Dr Zaki earned her MA in Counseling Psychology at AUC and her PhD at UCAM University in Spain. She teaches developmental psychology to graduate and undergraduate students.
Her work centres on the developmental pathway of parenthood, the transition to motherhood and attachment relationships, with a particular focus on maternal mental health and perinatal psychology. In early 2024 she founded the Attachment Lab, the first lab of its kind in Egypt and the Arab world.
- Regional RepresentativeIPARTheory, North Africa & the Middle East
- Registered facilitatorCircle of Security Parenting (COSP)
- Registered facilitatorBringing Baby Home, The Gottman Institute
- Latest publicationChild Abuse & Neglect, 2026
Recent talks
- 2026“Can Machines Hold Us? Attachment, Connection, and Illusion in the Age of AI”Robotics Summit, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- 2025“Where Universality Meets Context: Exploring Attachment Pathways in Egypt”Attachment Crossroads: Current Research on Parent-Child Attachment From Eastern & Western Perspectives, NYU Abu Dhabi, among 10 other cross-cultural attachment researchers, UAE
- 2025“Developmental Pathways to Parenthood: Today a Parent… Not Long Ago a Child”37th Annual Childhood Trauma and Attachment Conference (ATTACh), Tennessee, USA
+8Dr Zaki works alongside a team of research assistants who take part in every stage of the research process.Meet the team